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DR.  SCOTT,  Osteopath 

Phones  :  Office  Chi.  150.  House  2549 

38-39  Frazier  BIdg.,  Aurora,  11(33 

OFFICE   TREATMENT    $t.SQ  ^ 


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AUTOLOGY 

(STUDY  THYSELF) 


AUTOPATHY 

(CURE  THYSELF) 


E.  R.  IV^ORAS,  M,  D. 

HIGHLAND  PARK.  ILL. 

Graduate  of  Harvard  University  Medical  School  '88;  of 

College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  (Chicago)  '89; 

Formerly  House  Physician  and  Surgeon  in  Cook 

County    Hospital    (Chicago),    Professor   of 

Obstetrics   College   of    Physicians  and 

Surgeons    (Chicago).    Member    of 

Chicago  Medical  Society,  etc. 


SIXTH  EDITION 

1910 


'To  understand  your  Ailments 
is  to  know  how  to  Cure  them.''' 


Copyright,  1910, 

BY    E.    R.     MORAS 

Highland  Park,  111. 


^0  the  Moulder  of  my  Character,  the 
Mentor  and  Critic  of  my  Works,  the 
Maker  of  my  Home; 

my  Friend  and  Companion  and  Wife 
— Anna  Leonora  Stamm-Moras — 
Autology  is  Dedicated. 

— EDMOND  R.  MORAS 


Cell-matter  is  the   only  Cure-matter — 

Mind  is  not  cell-matter, 

Therefore,  Mind  does  not  cure  Matter. 

As  Time  and  Space  are  mere  conveni- 
ences of  Cosmic  Matter,  so  Mind  and 
Thought  are  mere  incidences  of  Cell 
Matter. 


PREFACE. 

FLOWERS   AND    NATURE'S    SELF- 
TREATMENT. 

Many  years  ago,  on  a  spring  morning,  I  was  driving 
through  the  country  to  see  a  sick  baby.  Among  the 
trees  that  Hned  the  roadway  I  espied  beautiful  prim- 
roses. As  I  stood  feasting  my  senses  on  them  I  won- 
dered why  these  flower-babies  of  Nature  had  no  need 
for  doctors  or  nurses,  whereas  human  babies  had ! 

I  picked  a  fev/  of  the  flowers  and  hurried  to  my  pa- 
tient. The  little  fellow  was  very  feverish  and  delirious. 
He  was  panting  rather  than  breathing,  for  he  was 
dying  of  double  pneumonia ;  had  been  dying  for  some 
days,  so  the  mother  stated. 

As  I  stood  by  the  cradle  side  the  mother  pleaded, 
"O,  doctor,  can  you  save  my  boy?"  I  replied,  "I  think 
so,  with  your  help."  My  reason  for  answering  encour- 
agingly was  owing  partly  to  self-reliance  based  on  ex- 
perience and  partly  because  I  had  just  witnessed  and 
understood  how  sunshine  and  balmy  breezes  and  re- 
freshing moisture  had  coaxed  primroses  from  seeming" 
death  into  healthy,  beautiful  blossoms. 

Holding  up  the  few  primroses  I  asked  the  woman  if 
flowers  would  grow  and  develop  without  sunshine,  and 
she  said  no.  I  asked  her  if  sickly  blossoms  would  re- 
vive without  air  and  rain  (or  water)  and  she  said  no, 
and  I  asked  her  if  roses  would  thrive  in  stuffy  rooms 

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and  she  said  no.  Then  I  asked,  "How  do  you  expect 
God  or  Nature  to  break  all  natural  laws  and  perform 
a  miracle  just  for  your  child  when  you  keep  him  away 
from  vitalizing  light  and  air  and  water  during  the  in- 
clement months  of  the  year?  Your  child's  body  has 
stored  away  as  best  it  could  the  chemical  impurities 
which  you  have  compelled  him  to  breathe  and  drink 
and  eat  during  these  many  past  months,  and  so  do  you 
wonder  why  Nature  is  now  burning  and  ridding  itself 
of  the  poisonous  waste  or  rubbish,  as  you  do  at  house- 
cleaning  time?  For  reasons  that  are  obvious  Nature 
has  chosen  the  infant's  lungs  to  build  a  bonfire  in  and 
reduce  the  body  poisons  to  ashes." 

That  anybody  should  die  of  acute  or  infectious  dis- 
eases or  fevers  (excluding  none)  is  indeed  a  sad  refles- 
tion  on  the  intellectual  status  of  the  patient  or  the 
family  or  the  community.  And  there  is  absolutely  no 
excuse  for  any  one  to  die  of  "complications"  or  to 
recover  with  "relics"  cf  disease. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  an  incurable  disease,  al- 
though certain  diseases  do  reach  a  stage  where  treat- 
ment may  become  powerless,  as  during  certain  stages 
of  cancer,  pyemia  and  consumption ;  but  these  diseases 
have  periods  lasting  from  days  to  months  during  which 
they  are  curable. 

Even  at  the  risk  of  diminishing  the  scientific  and 
"business"  value  of  this  work,  I  have  injected  a  rather 
"personal"  and  "smarting"  serum  in  its  most  "fleshy" 
parts.  Should  the  "injected"  material  smart  for  a  mo- 
ment or  two,  kindly  bear  with  it  for  the  sake  of  the 
results  desired  and  sure  to  follow. 

E.  R.  MORAS. 


AUTOLOGY 


WHAT  IS  AUTOLOGY? 

The  word  is  derived  from  the  Greek  "Autos,"  mean- 
ing Self,  and  "Logos,"  meaning  Treatise.  Hence 
Autology  is  the  science  which  treats  of  Self,  as  Biol- 
ogy is  the  science  which  treats  of  Life. 

The  two  terms — Autology  and  Biology,  though  re- 
lated— are  not  synonymous. 

The  basis  of  Autology  is  the  physical  Self — the  Ego 
or  You  after  it  has  appeared  ready-made  in  this  ready- 
made  physical  or  material  world. 

Autology  asks  and  answers  only  one  question — 
namely,  How  does  the  Ego  (or  You)  manage  to  stay 
What  and  Where  it  is?  Which,  incidentally,  leads  to 
asking  and  answering:  How  does  the  Ego  (or  You) 
manage  to  stay  Well  or  to  get  Sick  in  staying  what 
and  where  it  is? 

Looking  sharply  at  these  two  questions,  it  becomes 
evident  that,  as  the  second  question  is  "incidental"  to 
the  first,  so  the  "managing  to  stay  well  or  to  get  sick" 
is  incidental  to  the  "managing  to  stay  here." 

Therefore,  Autology  as  a  Science  has  an  incidental 
offspring  as  a  Practice — a  "practice"  which  enables 

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8  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

the  "sick"  Ego  (or  You)  to  "manage"  back  to  its 
*'well"  self. 

This  practice  I  have  called  Autopathy. 

Autopathy  is  the  Art  of  Curing  Thyself,  and  Autol- 
ogy  is  the  Science  of  Studying  Thyself.  But  in  the 
well  defined  sense  of  Curing  Thyself  physically  as  you 
know  Thyself  physically. 

Self-science  and  Self-sickness,  or  Autology  and 
Autopathy,  bear  the  same  relation  to  one  another  that 
Health  and  Disease  bear  to  one  another. 

You  cannot  divorce  Health  from  Sickness,  in 
thought  or  fact,  as  you  cannot  cancel  either  one  ex- 
cept through  the  other.  As  health  gets  herself  sick  so 
she's  got  to  get  herself  well — doing  it  through  sick- 
ness; and  as  sickness  gets  herself  well  she's  got  to 
do  it  through  health. 

Therefore,  it  is  the  duty  of  Autology  to  tell  you  how 
you  get  to  be  sick  as  well  as  how  you  manage  to  be 
well;  and  it  is  the  duty  of  Autopathy  to  tell  you  how 
to  get  well  again  w^hen  you  manage  to  get  sick. 

I  purpose  to  prove  to  you  that  Sickness  is  caused 
by  the  identical-same  physical  elements  and  chemical 
compounds  that  cause  Health;  and,  furthermore,  I 
purpose  to  prove  to  you  that  Health  always  restores 
itself  with  or  through  the  identical-same  physical  ele- 
ments and  chemical  compounds  that  produce  Sick- 
ness. 

As  you  contemplate  the  simpleness  but  comprehen- 
siveness of  my  Autologic  Theory,  do  not  permit  your 
thoughts  to  alight  on  the  dead  branch  of  a'  revived 
ancient  notion.  It  has  become  quite  the  fashion  to 
propound  as  new  the  hypothesis  that  "there  is  only 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  9 

one  disease,"  and  that  this  one  disease  is  due  to  *'a 
blood  poison"  or  to  "blood  impurities"  or  to  "foreign 
matters"  in  the  system.  If  you  please,  what  about  the 
"humours"  of  pre-medical  days?  The  minds  that  ex- 
pressed their  conception  of  disease  by  ascribing  it  tc 
the  presence  and  action  of  "humours"  were  by  far 
saner  and  nearer  the  truth  than  are  the  new-thoughted 
minds  that  substitute  the  words  "impurities,"  "poi- 
son" or  "foreign  matters"  for  "humours." 

I  am  not  propounding  anything  as  vague  as  the 
"humour"  hypothesis,  nor  as  irrational  as  the  "blood- 
poison"  or  "foreign-matter"  delusion;  although  I  am 
compelled  to  use  those  words  occasionally. 

I  am  not  endeavoring  to  prove  that  there  is  only  one 
disease,  nor  admitting  that  there  are  many  diseases; 
because  the  word  "disease"  has  no  definite  meaning 
accepted  by  all  who  utter  it,  and  because  the  concep- 
tion of  disease  is  inseparable  from  the  conception  of 
health;  and  because,  to  my  mind,  the  conception  of 
health  and  disease  is  not  a  dual  conception.  It  (or 
they)  and  livingness  are  actually  and  really  but  three 
phases  or  aspects  of  the  same  concept — and  that  is  liv- 
ing matter. 

Livingness  unifies  Health  and  Disease  and  union- 
izes the  "signs"  of  the  one  with  the  "symptoms"  of 
the  other — under  the  same  Factor-Head,  and  thus  es- 
tablishes a  rational  common  basis  or  process  for  both. 

All  living  things  are  made  up  of  one  or  many  cells. 
A  cell  is  a  microscopically  visible  compartment  of  liv- 
ing substance,  having  the  form  of  a  chamber  of  a 
sponge  or  honeycomb.    Our  blood,  tissues  and  organs 


lo  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

are  made  up  of  a  multitude  of  such  cells,  so  tiny  that 
they  are  not  visible  to  the  naked  eye.  The  cells  which 
compose  plants  and  fruits  are  put  up  in  the  same  way 
that  ours  are,  and  their  physical  and  chemical  constit- 
uents are  the  same  as  ours.  Moreover,  the  cells  of  our 
brains  contain  the  same  identical  substances  or  bodies 
that  the  cells  of  our  kidneys  or  muscles  and  other 
organs  do,  only  the  arrangement  and  proportion  of  the 
molecules  or  infinitesimal  particles  vary. 

All  cells  consist  of  a  fluid  called  "serum,"  in  which 
float  more  or  less  finely  ground  particles  or  "gran- 
ules" of  living  m.atter  called  "protoplasm."  In  this 
cell-fluid  is  also  found  a  smaller  cell  (or  several)  called 
"nucleus."  The  most  active  or  "live"  bodies  or  gran- 
ules exist  in  the  nucleus  or  nuclei  of  the  cells.  The 
cells  of  different  organs  or  tissues  vary  in  shape,  but 
not  in  structure  or  function.  What  is  true  of  the  con- 
stitution or  make-up  and  function  of  the  cells  of  the 
brain  is  equally  true  of  the  make-up  and  function  of 
the  kidney  or  ovary.  The  products  of  the  changes  and 
exchanges  taking  place  betv>/een  the  constituents  of 
the  cells  and  those  of  the  blood  alone  are  different; 
that  is,  stomach  cells  produce  stomach  cells  and  gas- 
tric juice,  whereas  brain  cells  produce  brain  cells  and 
cerebral  fluid  (or  juice). 

The  nucleus  may  be  called  the  heart  of  the  cell  and 
the  serum  and  protoplasm  its  blood  and  food.  When 
we  v/ish  to  refer  to  a  whole  cell,  or  to  a  nucleus  or  to 
any  microscopically  visible  bodies  that  make  up  blood, 
tissues  or  organs  we  speak  of  "form.-elements."  When 
we  wish  to  refer  to  the  purely  fluid  substances  in  the 
body,  such  as  blood  serum  and  lymph,  whether  inside 


Au  top  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  ii 

or  outside  of  the  cells,  we  speak  of  "nutritive"  or  "cir- 
culating media."  It  is  important  that  you  should  un- 
derstand that  just  as  air  and  water  and  soil  contain 
our  nourishment  so  the  gases  and  fluids  and  solids  of 
serum  and  protoplasm  in  and  around  the  cells  and 
nuclei  contain  their  nutriment  or  vital  constituents  in 
health  and  in  disease. 

The  active  or  "live"  bodies  or  granules  of  the  nu- 
cleus are  nourished  by  the  constituents  of  the  serum 
of  the  cell-protoplasm,  which  in  turn  derives  its  nour- 
ishment from  the  blood  serum  and  the  lymph;  and 
also  by  the  same  cell-protoplasm  or  serum  are  the  by- 
products and  waste  materials  of  the  living  granules  of 
the  nucleus  assimilated,  and  then  passed  over  to  the 
blood  or  lymph  vessels  or  currents. 

Whatever  the  serum  and  protoplasm  get  from  air, 
water,  foods  or  poisons  the  nucleus  must  accept,  and 
v/hatever  the  nucleus  throws  off  or  discharges  as  ob- 
jectionable or  waste  the  protoplasm  or  serum  or  lymph 
must  accept  and  remove.  Nucleus  and  protoplasm  live 
and  behave  like  married  couples,  with  the  same  happy 
or  unhappy  results. 

The  substance  of  the  cells  as  a  whole  is  largely  liq- 
uid. The  solid  bodies  that  make  up  our  cells,  blood 
and  flesh  are  divided  into  "proteid"  (fleshy)  and  "min- 
eral." The  proteid  matter  is  called  "organic";  the 
mineral,  "inorganic."  That  distinction  is  artificial,  for 
both  not  only  exist  together  in  solution  in  the  serum 
and  form-elements  of  the  blood  and  cells,  but  also  in 
firm  and  permanent  combination  in  the  real  "live" 
granular  "proteid"  matter  of  the  nucleus  or  heart  of 
the  cells.    None  of  the  fluids  or  cells  of  the  body  can 


12  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

live  when  deprived  of  either  one  or  the  other.  The  so- 
called  inorganic  (mineral)  are  fully  as  essential  to  liv- 
ingness  and  growth,  as  well  as  to  health  and  recovery, 
as  the  organic  (proteid). 

Therefore  we  cannot  live  or  grow  or  get  well  with- 
out appropriating  and  assimilating  what  plants  derive 
from  beneath  and  above  the  ground  surface.  We  thrive 
in  identically  the  same  way  on  the  same  elements  of 
the  same  air,  light,  water  and  foods,  and  like  them  we 
remain  healthy  as  long  as  we  get  the  right  quality  and 
admixture;  but  like  them  we  wither  or  get  sick  when 
we  appropriate  too  little  or  too  much  of  either  or  both 
kinds  of  foods. 

The  things  which  keep  the  purely  proteid  or  fleshy 
substance  of  our  blood  and  tissues  healthy,  or  prevent 
it  from  souring  or  decomposing,  are  the  inorganic  or 
mineral  constituents — 'elements  that  we  neither  taste 
nor  smell  nor  chew.  For  the  most  part  they  get  into 
our  blood  and  organs  unrecognized  by  our  senses  with 
air,  water  and  foods.  Hence  health  is  greatly  a  matter 
of  haphazard  with  nearly  everybody.  That  is  why 
most  children  experience  the  afflictions  of  diseases  of 
childhood,  and  people  of  other  ages  suffer  from  one  or 
another  impaired  or  disordered  function,  or  succumb 
to  severer  diseases,  such  as  appendicitis,  pneumonia, 
consumption,  typhoid  fever,  pleurisy,  kidney  disease, 
nervous  ailments,  insanity,  and  so  forth. 

Blood  and  flesh  will  sour  or  rot  inside  as  well  as  out- 
side of  the  body  unless  it  is  "preserved"  in  some  way. 
You  can't  "embalm"  live  kidneys  or  livers  or  brains, 
but  Nature  can.  To  do  so  the  blood  must  be  supplied 
with  the  right  kind  and  proportion  of  the  inorganic- 


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vital  constituents  which  prevent  or  check  fermentation 
or  decomposition  of  cellular  substance  and  products. 
To  remain  well  or  to  regain  normal  health  the  blood 
and  organs  must  ever  be  supplied  from  air,  water  and 
soil  with  the  right  variety  and  proportion  of  those  in- 
organic constituents,  or  natural  remedies,  which  com- 
bine with  the  normal  or  abnormal  products,  or  poison- 
ous organic  acids,  which  organs  and  germs  and  fer- 
ments manufacture  in  health  as  well  as  in  disease. 

Therefore:  The  "living"  cell-matter  contains  the 
only  "living"  cure-matter. 

All  cells — well  or  sick — are  fundamentally  "one  in 
structure  and  in  function,"  as  all  bricks  are.  So,  all 
cell-cure  must  be  fundamentally  one  in  structure  and 
in  function. 

When  your  lungs  are  sick — who  or  what  does  the 
repairing  or  curing — if  not  the  lung-cells  themselves? 

And  with  what — if  not  with  air,  water  and  the 
"detoxicating"  food  constituents? 

Let  us  pass  to  sick  kidneys — who  or  what  does  their 
repairing  or  curing — if  not  the  kidney-cells  them- 
selves with  the  same  elements  of  the  same  air  and 
water  and  foods  which  lung-cells,  or  any  other  cells, 
utilize,  or  cure  themselves  with,  when  they  are  in  the 
same  predicament? 

If,  then — there  is  but  one  fundamental  "healthy" 
structure  and  function  of  cells  (organs  and  tissues)  ; 
and,  but  one  fundamental  "sickly"  structure  and  func- 
tion of  cells  (organs  and  tissues) — why  should  there 
be  more  than  one  fundamental  cure?    There  isn't. 

And  that  cure  is  of  nature-made  and  of  nature- 
preordained,  and  resides  in  the  cell-matter,  unknown 


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as  life,  but  recognized  as  function,  in  the  heart-gran- 
ules of  the  tissue-cells. 

It  is  that  thing,  which  we  call  "function  or  nutri- 
tion," which  enables  a  kidney-cell  to  manufacture  kid- 
ney-tissue and  urine  with  the  same  air  and  water  and 
food-stuffs  with  which  brain-cells  manufacture  brain- 
tissue  and  thoughts. 

The  idea  of  believing  that  "contraries  cure  con- 
traries," or  that  "likes  cure  likes,"  or  that  "mind  cures 
matter" — ! 

Drowning  is  cured  by  air- 
Asphyxiation  is  cured  by  air — 

Drowning  is  caused  by  water — 

Asphj^xiation  is  caused  by  gas — liquids — solids — 

Is  air  "contrary"  or  "similar"  to  water  or  gas — or 
"mind"? 

It's  air — and  that's  all  it  is. 

And,  without  it,  as  air,  no  living  thing — mind  and 
matter — can  cure  itself. 

Likewise  with  water  and  food. 

On  that  one,  simple,  fundamental  truth  is  Autology 
based. 

Autology  is  the  offspring  of  the  conception  that 
Health  is  one;  that  Sickness  is  one;  that  Cure  is  one; 
that  Livingness,  Health,  Sickness,  Cure  and  Death  are 
One — as  Electricity,  Light,  Heat,  Motion  and  Potency 
are  One. 

It  is  impossible  to  conceive  of  sickness,  or  of  cure, 
without  some  "health."  Therefore,  the  "some"  health 
becomes  the  cure  of  the  "some"  sickness.  Or,  the 
cell's  own  health  cures  the  cell's  own  sickness. 

In  other  words,  the  well,  or  partly  well,  cells  of  an 


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organ  or  tissue  cure  their  own  sick,  or  partly  sick, 
cells.  But,  neither  the  well  nor  the  sick  cells  of  an 
organ  or  tissue  can  cure  the  sick  or  partly  sick  cells  of 
another  organ  or  tissue.  For  instance,  lung  cells  can- 
not cure  the  sick  cells  of  a  liver  or  kidney  or  muscle  or 
bone,  etc.,  or  vice  versa. 

Nor  can  anything  help  to  cure  a  sick  cell  (organ  or 
tissue)  unless  that  something  is  itself  dis-organized 
and  then  re-organized  in  the  countless  cells  of  the  vari- 
ous functionating  tissues  and  circulating  fluids  of  the 
organism,  before  being  dis-organized  and  re-organized 
again  by  the  well  and  the  sick  cells  of  the  ailing  organ 
or  tissue. 

But — as  air  is  air,  and  as  such  is  not  a  cure ;  and,  as 
water  is  water,  and  as  such  is  not  a  cure ;  and  as  food 
is  food,  and  as  such  is  not  a  cure — therefore,  "cure"  is 
not  a  thing  that  exists  outside  of,  or  distinct  from,  the 
particular  tissue-cells  in  whose  "bosom"  it  (the  cure) 
originally  was  (preformed  and  preordained  by  Nature) 
and  is  again  re-formed  with  the  elements  derived  from 
air,  water,  light  and  foods. 

Hence — "contraries"  do  not  cure  "contraries"; 
"likes"  do  not  cure  "likes";  "mind"  does  not  cure 
"matter" — but  self  cures  itself.  In  other  words.  Na- 
ture-made "living"  matter  cures  its  own  self  with  self- 
made  and  self-same  matter. 

That's  the  Rational  and  Scientific  Basis  of  Autology 
and  Autopathy. 


EUGENICS. 

(Race  Culture.) 

Eugenics  is  that  doctrine  of  Anthropology,  the  Study 
of  Man,  which  teaches  race-culture,  or  the  raising  of 
good  human-stock. 

Comparatively  little  other  attention,  than  to  the 
moulding  of  features  and  of  frames,  have  scientists 
here  or  abroad  devoted  in  studying  the  relation  which 
diet  and  hygiene  bear  to  the  development  and  improve- 
ment of  human-stock. 

Science  is  apt  to  begin  its  investigations  and  experi- 
ments at  the  wrong  end.  Thus  eugenists,  or  race- 
culturists,  are  endeavoring  to  determine  the  effects 
of  diet  and  climate  and  environments  on  the  "forma- 
tive influences"  which  tend  to  change  or  modify  the 
featural  or  physiognomical  types  of  families  and  indi- 
viduals, or  which  occasion  peculiarities  and  aberra- 
tions in  the  mould  and  physical  characteristics  of,  for 
instance,  the  nose,  the  chin,  the  mouth,  the  ears,  etc. 

Thus,  taking  the  Jew's  nose  as  an  illustration,  Schu- 
f eldt  says :  "Nature's  provision  of  a  nose  for  the  sense 
of  smell,  and  the  life  of  the  Jew  in  the  foul  Ghettos, 
and  amidst  a  thousand  unnamable  Oriental  odors,  is 
largely  responsible  for  the  Hebraic  physiognomy. 
Where  the  air  has  not  to  be  well  filtered  before  it 
passes  into  the  lungs,  or  where  the  sense  of  smell  is 
not  outraged,  we  have  the  open  nostril  of  the  Russian 
peasant,  the  negro,  and  the  Esquimaux." 

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Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  17 

Then,  Fauconberg  reports:  "A  recent  writer  has 
noticed  the  greater  chin  and  jowl  of  Americans,  which 
marks  them  even  in  early  infancy,  and  in  his  opinion 
is  due  to  a  too  starchy  diet," 

It  has  often  been  observed  that  good  habits  and 
wholesome  foods  enable  a  facially  degenerated  family 
to  raise  offsprings  of  strong  and  beautiful  features. 

Now,  the  chief  aim  of  scientists  should  not  be  to  de- 
termine or  to  "record"  the  mere  fact  that  certain  effects 
or  changes  are  produced  in  the  mould  of  the  nose,  or 
chin,  or  mouth  of  individuals — under  wholesome  and 
unwholesome  environments ;  but  it  should  be  to  group 
all  observed  effects  under  two  classes,  the  normal  type 
and  the  abnormal  type,  and  to  refer  each  class  to  the 
physical  factors  which  determine  its  typical  character- 
istics— not  so  much  its  featural  or  outwardly  visible 
peculiarities  of  beauty  or  ugliness,  but  its  qualitative 
brainal  or  cerebral,  cellular  or  protoplasmic,  constitu- 
tion. In  short,  let  us  trace  featural  and  physiognom- 
ical results  or  effects  of  diet  and  environments  to  the 
fabric  or  makeup  of  brain  substance — as  determined 
by  the  formative  influences  of  feeding  and  breeding. 
Or,  better  yet,  let  us  concentrate  our  efforts  to  the 
feeding  and  breeding  of  brains  with  a  view  to  influ- 
ence the  formation  and  control  the  development  of 
brain  convolutions — thereby  insuring  not  alone  the 
production  of  the  most  superb  types  of  frames  and 
features,  but  also  the  incubation  of  the  highest  grade 
of  intelligence. 

Such  is  the  object  of  Autology. 

As  the  brain  and  the  intelligence  of  any  race,  of  any 
family,  of  any  individual  is  of  greater  importance  tha* 


1 8  Auto  logy — Study   Thyself 

are  their  noses  and  smells,  so  the  doctrine  of  how  to 
raise  brains  and  incubate  mind  with  foodstuffs  deserves 
more  attention  than  that  of  influencing  noses  or  chins. 

As  a  result  of  observation  we  know  certain  things 
about  the  "starchy"  and  the  "onion"  chin,  the  "potato" 
lip,  the  "smoker's"  ears,  the  "sugar"  mouth,  the  "tea- 
drinker's"  teeth,  the  "city-dweller's"  long-head,  the 
"strenuous-life"  type  of  face,  etc. ;  but  little  or  no  jus- 
tice has  been  done  to  the  effects  or  influence  of  diet 
in  moulding  the  brain  and  producing  a  high  order  of 
mental  characteristics. 

It  is  one  thing  to  focus  scientific  efforts  to  the  ac- 
quisition of  knov/ledge  whereby  we  are  able  to  under- 
stand and  regulate  the  process  of  the  digestion  and 
assimilation  of  various  foods  in  the  alimentary  canal, 
but  it  is  quite  another  to  penetrate  deeper  for  the  pur- 
pose of  understanding  and  regulating  the  same  proc- 
esses as  they  occur  within  the  inmost  recesses  or 
hearts  of  the  cells  which  constitute  vital  organs.  In 
other  words,  brain  "eupeptics,"  or  the  study  of  what 
constitutes  good  digestion  and  assimilation  within  the 
vacuole-stomachs  of  the  brain  cells  themselves,  should 
supersede  the  study  of  stomach  or  bowel  digestion.  As 
physiologists  have  transferred  their  investigations  of 
the  chemistry  of  digestion  and  absorption,  from  the 
stomach  and  bowel  cavities,  to  the  cellular  vacuoles  or 
cavities  of  the  solid  tissues,  so  should  students  of 
eugenics  transfer  their  investigations  of  physical 
changes  effected  by  diet  and  climate,  on  the  facial  or 
physiognomical  characteristics  of  the  individual,  to 
the  changes  effected  by  diet  and  environments  on  the 
brainal  or  intellectual  characteristics  of  the  individuaL 


A  ut  op  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  xg 

It  is  unquestionably  interesting  to  learn  of  "the 
beautiful  nasal  organ  of  Charles  Dickens  and  the  splen- 
did chin  of  Napoleon,"  but  how  much  more  educating 
and  helpful  it  would  be  to  determine  the  physical 
"how"  and  "what"  which  made  it  possible  for  "form- 
ative influences"  to  mould  Dickens'  and  Napoleon's 
brain  convolutions,  and  evolve  intellectual  character- 
istics, with  such  incidental  results  as  Napoleonic  chins, 
etc.  Nature  does  nothing  haphazardly.  Utility  is  Na- 
ture's guide.  She  demonstrates  this  truth  in  forming 
noses,  ears,  mouths,  fingers,  etc.,  as  well  as  fins  and 
webs  and  wings;  and,  when  forced,  through  environ- 
ments or  nourishment,  to  utilize  unsuitable  physical 
elements,  she  does  not  refuse  to  turn  out  noses,  ears, 
chins,  etc. — but  she  gives  these  some  peculiar  size  or 
shape  or  characteristic,  called  "degenerate"  types  or 
specimens. 

All  "degenerate"  types  of  face  or  features  are  due  to 
the  violation  of  the  laws  of  Nature^-of  those  laws 
which  compel  us  to  have  light,  air,  water  and  foods; 
but  which  leave  it  optional  with  us  as  regards  utilizing 
"artificial"  or  "natural"  kinds  of  light,  air,  water  and 
foods. 

If  "artificial"  or  degenerate  ways  of  living,  eating 
and  drinking  produce  such  marked  variations  or  aber- 
rations of  nose,  or  chin,  or  mouth,  or  ear- — then  is  it  to 
be  wondered  at  that  the  same  artificial  conditions  also 
produce  marked  variations  or  aberrations  of  brain- 
matter  and  "mental"  and  moral  products? 

Personally,  I  prefer  to  let  noses,  chins,  mouths,  ears 
and  toes  take  care  of  themselves,  and  to  devote  my  at- 
tention to  brains — but  to  brains  in  the  physical  sense — 


20  Autology — Study   Thyself 

fully  convinced  by  actual  observation  that  when  brain- 
matter  is  adequately  and  carefully  fed  and  bred,  in  the 
sense  that  horses  are  fed  and  bred,  all  other  tissue- 
matters  and  sense-organs  are  bound  to  be  "beautiful" 
and  "splendid" — the  best  and  finest  of  their  type. 

I  know  of  one  specimen  whose  featural  and  physiog- 
nomical and  brainal  and  intellectual  and  physical  char- 
acteristics are  amply  sufficient  of  themselves  to  con- 
vince the  most  skeptical  mind  that  there  is  something 
in  this  new  autologic  doctrine  of  feeding  and  breeding 
brains  and  intelligence  in  children  and  others  as  you 
feed  and  breed  "stock"  in  horses,  etc.  And,  finally, 
that  there  is  next  to  nothing  in  heredity. 

A  robin  redbreast  does  not  fetch  summer  along,  but 
his  presence  in  your  garden  is  sure  proof  that  others 
are  coming  from  the  same  direction  and  in  the  same 
manner;  so,  likewise,  I  infer  that  the  presence  in  my 
garden  of  a  thoroughbred  brain,  mind  and  body  is  sure 
proof  that  others  should  be  forthcoming  in  other  fami- 
lies from  the  same  direction  and  in  the  same  manner. 
Such  is  the  heart  and  brain  and  soul  wish  of  the 
writer. 


HOW  TO  RAISE  BRAINS 

It's  gotten  to  be  no  trick  at  all  to  raise  thirty-thou- 
sand-dollar "pinks,"  or  fifty-thousand-dollar  horses,  or 
billion-dollar  trusts — but  it  still  is  the  toughest 
proposition  in  the  world  to  raise  anything  better  than 
thirty-cent  brains.  Why?  Because:  People  will 
learn  to  feed  hogs  or  cabbages  or  puppies,  but  they 
don't  care  a  darn  how  they  feed  their  offspring. 

Anybody  can  raise  gas  in  dough,  which  is  like  rais- 
ing mind  in  brain ;  but  just  as  yeast  and  fermentation 
do  not  produce  bread,  so  mind  and  education  do  not 
produce  brains. 

It  takes  air,  light,  water  and  food-stuffs  to  manufac- 
ture brains  and  mind,  as  it  does  to  manufacture  livers 
and  bile,  kidneys  and  urine. 

The  best  part  of  it  is  that  it  is  quite  as  cheap  and 
easy  to  feed  a  child  stuff  that  goes  to  the  making  of 
brains  and  mind  as  it  is  to  feed  it  "truck"  that  goes  to 
the  making  of  liver  and  bile,  or  kidney  and  urine. 

Listen!  Suppose  some  one  wants  to  "raise"  a  big 
liver  or  flatulous  belly — it's  no  trick,  is  it?  Why,  then, 
should  it  be  to  "raise"  a  big  brain  and  brilliant  mind? 

You  raise  the  first  two  by  breathing,  drinking  and 
eating  liver-  and  bile-producing  air,  beverages  and 
dishes;    so,  you  can  raise  the  last  two  by  breathing, 

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22  Autology — Study   Thyself 

drinking  and  eating  brain-  and  mind-producing  air> 
beverages  and  dishes.  And,  what  beats  all,  is  that  the 
air  and  drinks  and  foods  which  produce  the  best 
brands  of  gray  matter  and  intelligence  are  the  same 
that  produce  the  finest  quality  of  liver  and  bile,  of  kid- 
neys and  urine,  of  lungs  and  blood,  of  stomachs  and 
gastric  juice,  and  so  forth.  But,  on  the  other  hand, 
the  air  and  drinks  and  foods  which  produce  the  bulki- 
est and  bile-fullest  livers,  the  biggest  and  urine-fullest 
kidneys,  the  pouchiest  and  slime-fullest  stomachs,  are 
the  air  and  drinks  and  foods  which  produce  the  meas- 
liest and  most  brainless  minds. 

So  long  as  the  air  which  surrounds  people  is  cooked 
and  done  up  with  a  view  to  petting  skins  or  notions, 
and  so  long  as  drinks  and  foods  are  chosen  to  tickle 
the  palate  and  prepared  to  snug  up  v.7aist-bands,  so 
long  shall  people  be  able  to  raise  thoroughbred  horses, 
dogs  and  hogs,  and  prize-winning  fruits  and  flowers 
and  "  'taters,"  but  shan't  for  the  life  of  them  be  able 
to  raise  thoroughbred  or  pedigreed  children. 

To  make  a  three-year  story  short,  and  in  order  to 
give  you  a  "model"  from  which  to  cast  any  number 
of  like  products,  permit  me  to  relate  an  experiment  in 
"raising"  brains  in  a  boy's  head. 

I  do  not  ask  any  reader  to  "believe"  what  I  write, 
but  I  do  want  every  reader  to  "understand"  what  I 
state  and  explain.  If  I  told  you  that  I  had  been  "ex- 
perimenting" with  American  Beauty  roses,  and  had 
succeeded  in  raising  the  finest  yet,  as  was  done  with 
the  Lawson  carnation,  you  would  see  no  reason  why 
you  should  disbelieve  me,  for  I  would  have  "the"  rose 


Autopath y — Cure    Thyself  23 

to  show  you.  Well,  Autology  and  I  have  been  in- 
strumental in  raising  or  growing  the  finest  specimen  of 
American  Brain  in  the  head  of  a  boy  whose  health  and 
development  have  been  entrusted  to  me. 

And,  as  I  foresaw,  his  mind  and  his  bile  and  his 
urine  and  his  bowels  and  his  juices  and  his  looks  and 
his  physique,  and  everything  else  about  him,  has 
taken  care  of  itself,  as  the  stems  and  leaves  and  petals 
and  colors  and  fragrance  of  the  sturdy  American 
Beauty  rose  do,  so  long  as  the  intelligent  and  watchful 
brain  of  the  gardener  studies  and  tends  to  the  wants 
of  the  plant. 

The  boy  is  just  3  years  old.  He  has  never  had  a  sus- 
picion even  of  an  ailment  or  a  cold,  though  "exposed" 
in  every  conceivable  way  to  "colds"  and  contagious  dis- 
eases of  children;  though  allowed  to  play  bareheaded 
in  the  hottest  of  sunny  days,  and  to  play  bareheaded 
in  the  coldest  of  bleaky  days.  But  an  intelligent 
mother's  eye  is  ever  focused  on  him,  and  an  intelligent 
mother's  brain  is  ever  attending  to  his  L.  A.  W.  F. — 
which,  you  know,  means  light,  air,  water  and  food. 

He  has  never  "been  taught"  or  "been  thoughted" 
anything. 

He  speaks  and  understands  three  languages,  and 
thinks  in  the  three  languages.  Do  you  realize  fully 
what  that  means?  He  thinks  in  the  three  languages! 
In  other  words,  his  brain  cells  (not  his  mind)  possess 
and  exude  the  "smartness"  of  the  Yankee,  "I'esprit" 
of  the  French,  and  the  "Gemiitlichkeit"  of  the  Ger- 
man. And  those  he  owns  as  his  own,  untaught  and 
unborrowed  and  unthoughted — but  simply  because  he 


24  Autology — Study   Thyself 

has  been  fed  the  physical  elements  of  light,  air,  water, 
foods  and  example,  which  elements  reach  his  brain- 
matter  by  way  of  his  hair  and  nose  and  stomach  and 
eyes  and  ears;  and  which  elements  are  organized  in 
and  by  his  brain-cells  into  their  own  physical  and  men- 
tal products  and  by-products— not  in  and  by  his  par- 
ents', but  in  and  by  his  own. 

Not  into  liver  "goods,"  but  into  brain  "goods."  And 
not  by  or  through  or  from  heredity,  either.  Of  course, 
he  wasn't  born  a  cabbage ;  nor  is  he  being  fed  or  bred 
like  one.  He's  just  a  well-moulded  and  well-balanced 
casting  of  flesh  and  blood,  of  brain  and  brawn.  Not 
cultured ;  just  nurtured.  But  his  head  is  more  in  evi- 
dence than  his  belly ;  and  his  facial  expression  conveys 
far  more  than  truth  and  fiction  ever  could. 

Were  it  not  that  public  environments  and  prevail- 
ing ideas  are  so  unfavorable,  and  must  ever  be  guarded 
and  fought  against  with  tooth  and  nail,  how  perfectly 
easy,  simple  and  feasible  that  achievement  could  be 
duplicated  by  any  one.  The  trouble  is  not  because  of 
expense  or  difficulty  in  supplying  any  child,  of  any 
parents,  with  the  material  elements  and  foods  neces- 
sary to  develop  superior  brain-cells,  but  it  is  because 
of  the  watchfulness  required  to  prevent  those  brain- 
cells  from  "snapping"  pictures  of  dusty,  cobwebby, 
streaky,  smutty  things  through  sight  or  sound  or  feel. 

A  child's  spongy  brain  soaks  in  and  photographs 
every  gross  and  minute  detail  of  every  look  and  sound 
and  behaving,  without  the  least  bit  of  regard  as  to 
whether  the  stuff  or  picture  is  good,  bad  or  indiffer- 
ent. And  it  assorts  them  into  albums,  or  pastes  them 
in  scrapbooks,  to  exhibit  or  refer  to  later.    And  just  as 


Autopathy — Cure   Thyself  25 

it  is  almost  heart-rending  to  part  with  old  pictures, 
however  tintypy  they  may  be,  so  it  is  almost  brain- 
rending  to  part  with  old  notions  or  impressions. 

As  the  twig  is  bent,  so  grows  the  tree.  But  what 
bends  or  what  straightens  the  brain?  It  is  quite  imma- 
terial by  what  physical  or  mental  name  you  call  that 
"what,"  so  long  as  you  understand  and  know  that  by 
"food"  I  mean  everything  and  anything  which  reaches 
the  child's  brain  through  his  nose  and  mouth  and  hair, 
as  well  also  as  I  mean  everything  which  reaches  the 
child's  brain  through  his  eyes  and  ears  and  fingers 
or  skin. 

You  "think"  you  quite  comprehend  what  I  mean, 
but  I'm  not  sure  that  you  do.  Because  it  is  the  pre- 
vailing and  accepted  notion  that  it  is  proper  to  concen- 
trate and  focus  all  public  and  individual  energies  to 
the  implanting  of  knowledge  into  children's  minds, 
overlooking  the  simple  fact  that  you  can't  impress  or 
implant  pictures  on  barefaced  or  blurred  or  smudged 
plates  of  glass. 

My  first  contention  is  to  forget  that  a  child  has  a 
mind — ^which  he  hasn't  got  ready-made  at  birth — but 
that  he  has  a  brain — which  he  has  got  ready-made  at 
birth — and  never,  never  to  forget  forgetting  the  first, 
and  never  forgetting  to  remember  the  second. 

My  second  contention  is  that  any  child's  brain  shall 
manufacture  the  highest  grade  of  brain-juice  (which 
you  call  mind),  as  any  child's  stomach  and  liver  and 
kidneys  shall  manufacture  the  highest  grade  of  gastric 
juice  and  bile  and  urine,  if  you  but  feed  the  child 
properly,  with  your  eyes  and  eeirs  and  mind  focused 
on  and  into  his  brain-marrow. 


26  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study    Thyself 

Understand  me  well,  please.  I  mean  that  there  is 
no  more  sense  in  teaching  a  child's  mind  anything 
whatsoever,  with  the  idea  that  that  something  is  going 
to  produce  knowledge  in  that  child's  mind  or  brain, 
any  more  than  there  would  be  sense  in  pouring  bile 
into  a  child's  stomach  with  the  idea  that  that  bile  was 
going  to  produce  bile  or  liver  in  that  child's  body.  I 
mean  that  the  first  principle  and  practice  of  Autology, 
or  of  Common  Sense,  is  to  feed  the  child's  brain- 
matter  through  the  child's  nose  and  mouth  and  hair 
first  and  alvv  lys,  and  only  incidentally  through  his  eyes 
and  ears.  His  tongue  and  fingers  and  feet  will  do  the 
rest  without  any  coaxing. 

You  can't  teach  a  child  to  walk,  although  you  can 
help  to  make  him  bov/-legged.  You  can't  teach  a  child 
to  think,  except  bow-leggedly.  You  can  feed  "walk- 
ing" into  a  child's  legs,  and  so  can  you  feed  "think- 
ing" into  a  child's  brain.  You  can  no  more  think  a 
thought  into  his  head  than  you  can  think  a  walk  into 
his  legs.  You  can  watch  or  guide  his  walking  appara- 
tus, as  you  can  watch  or  guide  his  thinking  apparatus ; 
but  the  moment  you  overstep  this  limit,,  in  walking, 
that  moment  you  invite  bumps  and  bloody  noses ;  and 
so,  in  thinking,  you  invite  chumps  and  silly  notions. 

Withal,  I  haven't  said  a  word  about  the  boy's  in- 
stinctive, intuitive  reasoning  faculty,  which  certainly 
is  the  direct  product  of  natural  digestion  c~  reaction 
as  it  occurs  in  his  brain-cells;  for  at  the  age  of  two 
he  was  already  capable  of  squelching  his  father  with 
the  force  and  sense  of  his  replies  and  arguments.  Did 
he  learn  or  inherit  those  replies  and  arguments?  Never. 
Did  he  ever  hear  them  before?    Never.    To  illustrate: 


Autopath  y — Cure    Thyself  27 

He  was  barely  two  years  old  at  the  time.  His  father 
was  busy  reading.  The  child  was  talking  and  bother- 
ing him.  Snappingly,  his  father  said:  "Ruhig!" 
("Keep  quiet.")  To  which  the  baby  deliberately  and 
sternly  remarked :  "Karlchen  ne  peut  pas  parler  avec 
ses  pieds."  ("Karlchen  can't  talk  with  his  feet.")  By 
which  he  meant  that  you  can't  think  with  your  liver  or 
bile. 


THOUGHT  "INCUBATION." 

There  is  the  making  of  a  "thinking"  chicken  in  the 
yolk  of  an  egg. 

By  whom?  By  the  constituents  of  the  "yellow"  and 
"white"  and  shell. 

Through  what?     Through  "incubating"  heat. 

How?     Let  us  see. 

A  yolk  is  not  "alive"  with  blood,  or  flesh,  or  bones, 
or  feathers,  or  brains;  nor  is  it  "mentalized"  with 
thoughts — before  it  is  incubated  and  hatched.  And 
what  constitutes  "incubating"  or  "hatching"?  Merely 
this:  Heating — a  certain  degree  and  duration  of  it — 
sets  in  motion  the  "functions"  of  the  chemical  "or- 
ganic" compounds  which  compose  egg-yolk,  as  wind- 
ing sets  in  motion  the  mechanism  of  a  watch ;  and  the 
egg,  unalive  and  unmentalized,  begins  to  breathe. 
Yes,  begins  to  "breathe." 

The  "incubated"  egg  actually  inhales  oxygen  and 
exhales  carbonic  acid  gas  as  plants  and  animals  do; 
and  perspires  vapor  or  moisture  through  its  shell-coat 
as  we  do  through  our  skin. 


28  Autology— Study   Thyself 

Day  by  day,  the  activity  or  motion  of  the  yolk-chem- 
icals increases  and  "attracts"  the  chemicals  of  the 
"white"  and  of  the  shell — and  behold !  a  brain,  as  well 
as  feathers,  appears  into  the  world  of  "human"  incu- 
bation. 

What's  happened?  Nothing  much,  apparently — but 
a  chicken  has  been  "hatched";  because  heat-motion 
helped  to  start  motion  of  a  given  kind,  called  breath- 
ing, inside  of  the  egg-shell.  If  that  heat,  or  the  lack 
or  excess  of  some  "degrees"  of  it,  had  started  another 
kind  of  motion,  called  "fermentation,"  inside  of  that 
same  egg-shell — as  often  happens — the  outcome  or 
product  would  have  been  rot  and  stench  instead  of 
brain  and  mind.    Wouldn't  it? 

Deprived  of  oxygen  and  moisture  inside  and  outside 
of  the  shell,  deprived  of  albuminoids  inside  and  out- 
side of  the  yolk;  without  phosphorus  and  minerals  in 
the  substance  and  shell ;  v/ithout  fats  and  cerebrine  and 
cholesterine  and  lecithin  in  the  yellow :  would  the  "par- 
ent" elements,  called  Nitrogen,  Oxygen,  Carbon  and 
Hydrogen,  have  organized  themselves  into  blood, 
flesh,  bones,  feathers  and  brain? 

What  then  has  occurred?  Nothing  much  apparent- 
ly ;  but  heat  started  "function"  or  breathing  in  the  egg- 
yolk;  heat  awakened  or  wound  up  the  "still"  mechan- 
ism of  organized  matter,  thereby  setting  in  motion  cer- 
tain physical  elements  which  moisture  and  minerals 
and  albuminoids  maintained  until  blood  and  flesh  be- 
came "animated"  with  instinct — another  form  of  mo- 
tion— which  led  its  owner  to  fracture  the  eggshell  that 
the  chicken  might  wiggle  out  into  surroundings  con* 
taining  vaster  stores  of  heat,  moisture,  minerals,  albu- 
minoids— and  daylight,  besides. 


Autopa thy— -Cure  Thyself  29 

No  one  assumes  that  "instinct"  causes  the  egg  to 
"breathe"  or  to  turn  into  a  "brainy"  or  mentalized 
chick — unless  one  means  that  physical  "affinity"  or 
chemical  "tension"  (motion)  is  synonymous  with  "in- 
stinct." 

No  one  claims  that  "mind"  causes  the  egg-shell  to 
inhale  oxygen  and  exhale  carbonic  acid  gas;  or  makes 
the  yolk  absorb,  digest  and  assimilate  the  "white" 
and  organize  itself  into  the  form  of  an  "embryo"  and 
then  into  that  of  a  live  "thinking"  chicken — unless  one 
means  that  "affinity"  or  "tension"  between  physical 
or  chemical  elements  and  compounds  is  synonymous 
with  "mind." 

So  there  we  are — either  chicken-instinct  or  mind  is 
simply  a  mode  or  form  of  physical  or  chemical  motion, 
or  it's  nothing;  either  instinct  or  mind  exists  fully 
formed  in  the  "dormant"  raw  yolk  we  eat,  or  it  is  actu- 
ally and  only  the  outcome  of  chemistry  pure  and  sim- 
ple— of  physical  or  chemical  action  and  reaction,  as 
heat  and  light  and  electricity  are. 

It  is  self-evident  that  "thinking"  does  not  exist  or 
operate  in  the  unbrained  or  unhatched  yolk  any  more 
than  in  the  "unhatched"  fecundated  human  ovum  (or 
imborn  fetus).  And,  though  not  so  obvious,  it  is  none 
the  less  correct  to  assume  that  the  chicken's  real  in- 
stinct (thinking)  is  not  aroused  or  initiated  before  or 
until  the  cramping  of  its  habitat  (shell)  interferes  me- 
chanically with  its  movements  and  further  develop- 
ment. 

That  which  we  ascribe  to  instinct  in  the  chicken  is 
nothing  else  than  the  outcome  or  expression  of  physi- 
cal or  chemical  motion  acting  against  resistance  or 
with  affinity. 


30  Autology — Study  Thyself 

It  is  generally  taken  for  granted  that  the  function 
called  "respiration"  supposes  the  agency  of  brain  or 
mind  in  the  being  or  "live"  thing  that  breathes;  and 
this  is  because  it  was  not  formerly  known  that  plants 
breathe  as  we  do,  and  owing  to  the  fact  that  very  few 
scholars  are  even  now  aware  that  an  egg  breathes  and 
actually  starts  to  become  a  "mentalized"  chicken  by 
inhaling  oxygen  and  exhaling  carbonic  acid  gas  as 
new  born  babies  start  to  become  "mentalized"  in- 
fants. 

That  which  starts  or  "incubates"  breathing  in  the 
egg  is  also  that  which  starts  and  incubates  thinking 
or  mind  in  that  same  egg — as  well  as  in  any  other  va- 
riety of  egg,  be  it  a  bird's,  or  fish's,  or  man's. 

One  doesn't  have  to  stretch  imagination  to  any  de- 
gree to  perceive  that  there  is  considerable  resemblance 
between  the  "human"  head  with  its  "gray"  and 
"white"  matter  and  the  "egg"-head  with  its  "yellow" 
and  "white"  substances.  Furthermore,  each  brain-cell 
is  virtually  an  egg  composed  of  a  shell  called  cell-wall, 
and  a  white  called  protoplasm,  inclosing  a  "yellow" 
called  nucleus — ^the  core  or  heart  of  the  brain-egg. 

Investigation  of  "procreative"  cells  in  the  male  and 
female  reveals  the  same  makeup.  Besides,  it  is  well- 
known  that  the  chemical  constituents  of  brain-yolks, 
and  of  "generative"  yolks,  and  of  egg-yolks  are  alike 
and  the  same;  and,  that  even  the  proportions  of  the 
various  compounds  forming  these  various  "yolks"  are 
quite  similar. 

Now,  then,  if  the  "yellow"  of  a  hen-egg  can  start 
or  attend  to  its  own  breathing  and  eventually  evolve 
its  own  brain  which  starts  and  attends  to  its  own 


Autopathy  —Cure  Thyself  31 

thinking  business:  why  should  we  have  to  resort  to 
the  assumption  that  an  incubated  ("fecundated")  hu- 
man egg  (ovum)  doesn't  know  enough  to  originate 
and  maintain  its  own  breathing  and  eventually  evolve 
a  brain  which  starts  and  attends  to  its  own  thinking? 

Why  resort  to  the  needless,  not  to  say  absurd,  as- 
sumption that  it  is  "mind"  in  human  skulls  that  does 
the  thinking  when  we  know  that  it  is  the  "yellov^"  in 
a  hen-egg  that  does  the  breathing,  or  a  pair  of  lung- 
bellows  and  not  "respiration"  inside  of  human  chests 
that  does  the  breathing? 

Does  Respiration,  a  mere  rhythmical  motion,  "incu- 
bate" lungs  or  "hatch"  breathing?  Or  is  it  not  the 
chemical  constituents  or  contents  of  lung-cells  (or 
lung-eggs)  which  originate  and  maintain  that  form  of 
mechanical  motion  called  "respiration"? 

Does  Mind,  a  mere  rhythmical  motion  (memory  and 
reason)  "incubate"  brains  or  "hatch"  thinking?  Or  is 
it  not  the  chemical  constituents  or  contents  of  brain- 
cells  (or  brain-eggs)  which  originate  and  maintain  that 
form  of  physical  motion  called  "mental"? 

Breathing  is  not  transformable  into  "live"  or  dead 
lung  substance;  nor  is  one  individual's  breathing  or 
respiration  transformable  into  another  individual's 
chest  or  lung  substance.  How  is  it  possible,  then,  to 
transform  thinking  into  brain  matter,  or  to  transfer 
one  person's  thinking  or  thoughts  into  another  per- 
son's brain  matter  or  "yolks"?  It  can't  be  done.  Hence, 
teaching,  in  the  sense  commonly  understood  and  the 
manner  usually  practiced,  is  a  waste  of  time,  money 
and  energy;  besides  the  fact  that  it  tends  to  store  up 
in  the  brain  convolutions  a  heap  of  "residual"  men- 


32  Autology — Study  Thyself 

tal  air  of  the  useless  or  harm-tending  kind  that  is  locked 
up  in  most  people's  lungs  who  do  not  live  a  fairly  ac- 
tive life.  Even  lungs  that  are  active  retain  a  certain 
amount  of  carbonic-acid-gas  laden  atmosphere  in  their 
cells;  but  this  "poor"  stock  of  oxygenated  air  is  less, 
and  it  is  more  frequently  exchanged  for  a  better  grade 
than  it  is  in  lungs  that  are  inactive.  So,  likewise,  brains 
that  are  self-active  or  self-acting — I  mean  in  the  same 
sense  that  lungs  are  self-active  or  self-acting — also  re- 
tain a  certain  amount  of  carbonic-acid-gas  laden 
thoughts  in  their  cells ;  but  this  "poor"  stock  of  "resid- 
ual" non-thinking  "air"  is  less,  and  it  is  more  frequent- 
ly exchanged  for  a  better  grade  than  it  is  in  brains  that 
are  not  self-active  or  not  self-acting.  In  other  words, 
"taught"  or  memorized  knowledge  is  no  better  for 
brains  than  "residual"  or  carbonized  air  is  for  lungs. 
The  one  needs  pumping  or  puffing  out  of  the  brain  as 
much  as  the  other  does  out  of  the  lungs.  But — what's 
better — it  is  preferable  to  prevent  teachers'  or  books' 
"residual"  thoughts  or  mentalities  from  reaching  the 
brain  cells,  or  at  least  to  so  activate  or  vitalize  brain 
cells  that  they  may  repel  or  expel  or  exclude  such 
thoughts  or  knowledge.  It  can  be  done — by  feeding 
the  brain  through  the  mouth,  nose  and  hair. 

You  can  "learn"  how  to  imitate  the  physical  move- 
ments of  another  person's  lung-exercises — though 
when  running  you  imitate  or  rather  originate  only 
your  own. 

You  can  "learn"  how-to-imitate  or  how-to-repeat 
the  socalled  "mental"  motions  of  another's  brain-ex- 
ercises— though  when  drowning  or  in  trouble  you  imi- 
tate or  rather  originate  only  your  own. 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  33 

But,  just  as  learn ing-to-imitate  or  repeat  the  "exer- 
cises" of  some  one  else's  breathing  produces  different 
results  or  no  results  at  all  in  different  individuals;  so, 
likewise,  learning-to-imitate  or  repeat  the  "exercises" 
of  some  one  else's  "thinking"  produces  different  re- 
sults or  no  results  at  all  in  different  individuals. 

Knowledge,  or  thinking,  cannot  be  taught  or  be- 
thoughted  into  brains  any  more  than  into  livers  or 
lampposts. 

If  the  reading  of  this  chapter  merely  produces  the 
memory  of  words  and  sentences,  or  even  of  the  ideas, 
I  mean  to  convey  to  your  brain,  without  those  words 
and  sentences  or  ideas  causing  your  own  brain  cells  or 
matter  to  breathe  deep  or  even  to  get  out  of  "think- 
ing" breath — then  I  have  failed  to  accomplish  any- 
thing as  far  as  your  brain  (or  mind)  is  concerned,  and 
you  are  wasting  your  time  reading.  You  should  be 
placed  and  replaced  in  "predicaments"  which  call  for 
arm  and  leg  action  in  order  to  save  your  integument 
from  harm  or  destruction.  After  a  few  weeks  of  such 
"predicamental"  exercise,  you'd  be  likely  to  "see  the 
point"  and  derive  some  "thinking"  benefit  from  the 
perusal  of  this  chapter. 

I  mean  that  any  knowledge  (or  ideas)  that  doesn't 
set  you  or  infants  thinking,  as  fright  sets  you  or  chil- 
dren hopping,  is  rubbish. 

Knowledge  or  teaching  can  and  does  act  as  an  in- 
cubator, or  as  heat — not  on  mind  but  on  brain  eggs  or 
muclei  (yolks) — but  knowledge  or  teaching  cannot 
and  does  not  "hatch"  thoughts  or  thinking  any  more 
than  it  "hatches"  brain  matter  or  chicken  substance; 
any  more  than  the  old  hen's  mind  or  meditating,  as 


34  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

she  sits  day  in  and  night  out,  hatches  egg-matter  or 
chicken-brain.  But,  as  egg-yolk  hatches  its  own 
breathing  and  blood  and  nerves  and  bones  and 
feathers  and  brains,  so  does  and  must  brain-yolks 
hatch  their  own  thinking  or  mind.  And  no  pow- 
er on  earth  or  in  planets  can  do  it  for  or  instead 
of  brain  "yolks" ;  as  no  power  there  or  elsewhere  can 
prevent  an  egg-yolk  from  hatching  putrefaction  under 
unsuitable  conditions  of  heat,  air  and  moisture.  So 
also  no  power  on  earth  or  elsewhere  can  prevent  bram 
cells  from  hatching  or  incubating  rot  and  stench — in 
act  and  fact  and  thought — under  unsuitable  conditions 
of  light,  air,  water  and  foods,  whatever  be  the  mental 
and  moral  atmosphere  surrounding  the  infant's  or 
adult's  skull. 

You  no  doubt  are  beginning  to  "capture"  the  two 
ideas  that  I  wish  to  impart  to  your  brain,  namely 

"How  Brains  are  Raised"  and 

"How  Minds  are  Incubated." 

Let  us  incubate  these  "raw"  yolks  or  ideas  a  bit  fur- 
ther. 

All  cells  of  your  body  "own"  some  sort  of  internal 
motion,  called  function.  For,  cell-constituents  like  air- 
constituents  and  food-constituents  (dead  or  alive,  in 
plants  or  animals)  are  never  still — they  never  sleep. 
But  all  cell-motions  are  not  alike  in  their  products  and 
manifestations.  Some  produce  lung  substance  and 
manifest  respiration;  some  produce  liver  and  bile  and 
manifest  glycogenation  (formation  of  liver  and  muscle 
sugar)  ;  some  produce  ova  and  spermatozoa  and  mani- 
fest procreation;  and  some  produce  brain  substance 
and  manifest  ratiocination  or  thinking — the  rarest  pro- 


Autopath y — Cure    Thyself  35 

duct  or  function  discoverable  in  up-to-date  brain  sub- 
stance outside  of  pure  business  or  commerce. 

Giving  this  proposition  a  twist,  it  may  be  stated  in 
this  way:  As  the  business  of  the  lung's  cell-constitu- 
ents is  to  reproduce  themselves  first,  last  and  all  the 
time  and,  incidentally,  to  resort  to  or  rather  to  evolve 
breathing  in  order  to  accomplish  their  object — the  pro- 
duction of  lung  matter;  and  as  it  is  the  business  of  the 
liver's  cell-constituents  to  reproduce  themselves  first, 
last  and  all  the  time  and,  incidentally,  to  "elect"  or  to 
evolve  bile  and  glycogen  in  order  to  accomplish  their 
purpose: 

So  it  is  the  business  of  the  brain  cell-constituents  to 
reproduce  themselves  first,  last  and  all  the  time,  and, 
incidentally,  to  resort  to  or  evolve  thinking  or  mind- 
making  in  order  to  accomplish  that  purpose.  Hence 
mind  is  but  a  form  of  bile^-only  that  it  is  invisible; 
but  so  very  expressible  that  at  times  one  can  "see" 
that  an  individual's  brain  has  jaundice  by  the  hue  of 
his  teachings  or  ideas.  You  know  what  a  "bilious 
head"  means — in  a  way ;  but  not  in  the  right,  physical 
way.  It  means  simply  that  as  a  liver  can't  quit  mak- 
ing bile,  good,  bad  or  indifferent,  so  a  head  or  brain 
can't  quit  making  mind,  good,  bad  or  indifferent.  So 
that  when  the  liver  makes  "bad"  bile  it  goes  to  the 
brain,  and,  to  get  even,  when  the  brain  makes  "bad" 
mind  it  goes  to  the  liver.  Is  that  your  version  of 
psychology?  It's  mine.  It  works  to  a  Tee  in  practice, 
in  health  and  sickness;  never  gets  lame,  or  lost  in  the 
clouds.    It's  not  a  bit  soap-bubbley. 

The  same  holds  good  about  what  your  kidneys  and 
urine  do  to  your  brain  and  mind;  and,  in  revenge. 


36  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

what  your  brain  and  mind  do  to  your  kidneys  and 
urine. 

If  you  don't  feel  like  admitting  that  your  urine  has 
any  effect  on  or  anything  to  do  with  your  thinking  or 
mind,  then  please  don't  admit  that  your  thinking  or 
mind  has  any  effect  on,  or  anything  to  do  with,  your 
urine. 

Most  assuredly  there  is  a  difference  between  urine 
and  mind;  but  none  other  than  there  is  between  a 
visible  electric  light  and  an  invisible  electric  current. 
The  one,  the  urine,  is  the  visible  product  of  kidney 
"yolks" ;  and  the  other,  the  mind,  is  the  invisible  pro- 
duct of  the  brain  "yolks." 

Thinking  is  just  as  much  a  function  of  kidney 
"yolks"  as  urinating  is,  and  urinating  is  just  as  much 
a  function  of  brain  "yolks"  as  thinking  is.  If  kidney 
cells  didn't  do  some  deep  thinking  day  and  night,  es- 
pecially at  night,  I  wonder  what  v/ould  become  of 
people's  brain  cells  and  mind  thinking!  Considering 
how  human  beings  live,  drink,  eat  and  behave. 

Passing  now  to  seeds,  such  as  grow  into  plants  and 
flowers,  let  me  state  this:  That  just  as  the  growing 
and  grown  product  of  a  seed  bears  the  "living"  stamp 
of 

(i)     the  "make"  or  kind  of  seed  planted,  and 

(2)  the  physical  or  material  conditions  that  sur- 
round the  seed  from  the  instant  it  comes  in  contact 
with  soil,  and  throughout  its  growth  and  existence; 
BO  also,  must  and  shall  the  growing  and  grown  pro- 
duct of  human  seed  bear  the  "living"  stamp  of 

(i)     the  "m.ake"  or  kind  of  seed  planted  (race),  and 

(2)     the  physical  or  material  conditions  that  sur- 


Autopath y — Cure   Thyself  37 

round  the  human  seed  from  the  instant  it  cornea  in 
contact  with  the  soil,  and  its  light,  air,  water  and  foods, 
and  throughout  its  growth  and  existence  in  and 
through  that  soil,  light,  air,  water  and  foods. 

Again — just  as  the  growing  and  grown  product  of 
a  cell  (plant  or  animal)  bears  the  "living"  stamp  of 

(i)     the  "make"  or  kind  of  cell  produced,  and 

(2)  the  physical,  material  conditions  that  evolve 
it  from  the  instant  it  comes  in  contact  with  soil,  light, 
air,  water  and  foods ; 

So  also,  m.ust  and  shall  the  growing  and  grown  pro- 
duct of  brain  cells  bear 

(i)  the  "thinking"  stamp  of  the  kind  of  brain  cells 
produced,  and 

(2)  the  physical  and  material  conditions  that  sur- 
round them  (the  brain)  from  the  instant  the  brain 
comes  in  contact  with  the  soil,  light,  air,  water  and 
foods. 

Finally — just  as  the  growing  or  grown  product  of 
kidney  cells  bear 

(i)  the  urinary  grade  of  the  make  or  kind  of  kid- 
ney cell-constituents  ingested,  digested  and  assimilated 
by  the  individual,  and 

(2)  the  physical,  material  conditions  that  surround 
or  reach  the  kidneys  from  the  instant  they  (or  their 
owner)  come  in  contact  with  light,  air,  liquids  and 
foods ; 

So,  also,  must  and  shall  the  growing  or  grown  pro- 
duct of  brain  cells  bear 

(i)  the  thinking  or  mind-grade  of  the  make  or  kind 
of  brain  cell-constituents  ingested,  digested  and  assim- 
ilated by  the  individual,  and 


3S  A  u  t  o  I  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

(2)  the  physical,  material  conditions  that  surround 
or  reach  the  brain  from  the  instant  they  (or  their  own- 
er) come  in  contact  with  light,  air,  liquids  and  foods. 

Therefore,  what's  the  sense  in  "teaching"  the  brain 
any  more  than  in  teaching  the  kidneys?  As  you  can't 
teach  kidney  cells  to  urinate  except  by  giving  them  the 
elements  of  light,  air,  water  and  foods,  so  you  can't 
teach  brain  cells  to  think  except  by  giving  them  the 
elements  of  light,  air,  water  and  foods. 

And  just  as  urine  varies  in  quality  and  quantity,  and 
other  things,  with  the  kind  of  light,  air,  water  and 
foods  taken  in  or  absorbed  by  your  body,  so  mind  (or 
thinking)  varies  in  quantity  and  quality,  and  other 
things,  with  the  kind  of  light,  air,  water  and  foods 
taken  in  or  absorbed  by  your  body. 

Somehow,  v/hen  I  hear  or  read  some  one  talking  or 
writing  about  the  "objective"  and  "subjective"  minds, 
or  psycholog}'',  I  always  seem  to  see  bile  or  urine 
coursing  through  or  "watering"  the  talker's  or  writ- 
er's brain  cells;  for  tliere  can  be  no  denying  that  all 
up-to-date  brands  of  psychological  or  new-thoughted- 
ness  bear  a  decided  biliary  or  urinary  stamp. 

Won't  some  one  please  tell  us  how  many  more  in- 
finitesimal fractions  of  an  instant  would  a  blood-and- 
flesh  brain,  or  an  "objective"  or  "subjective"  mind 
keep  on  thinking  or  thought-making — than  would  a 
liver  or  stomach  keep  on  bile-  or  juice-making,  if  the 
individual  were  denied  air?  Or  how  m.uch  longer 
"mind"  would  keep  on  cogitating  than  kidney  cells 
urinating  if  "mind"  were  denied  water?  Or  how  much 
longer  "mind"  (or  brain)  would  keep  on  working  than 
blood  corpuscles  navigating  if  either  were  denied  com- 


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mon,  ordinary  soil  minerals,  like  sodium  and  potassi- 
um? 

But  what's  the  use — for  who  can  deny  the  fact  that 
with  each  thought  produced  (mind  you  I  say  "pro- 
duced"; and  not  borrowed)  brain  cells  or  nuclei  per- 
spire a  little  urinary  and  biliary  moisture  as  well  as 
they  exhale  some  carbonic  acid  gas  for  the  "benefit" 
of  the  liver  and  kidneys  and  lungs?  And  who  can 
deny  that,  per  contra,  with  each  action  or  reaction 
produced  in  the  kidney  or  liver  cells  or  nuclei  each 
liver  or  kidney  cell  or  nucleus  breathes  forth  a  little 
mental  or  thinking  moisture  or  something  for  the 
"benefit"  of  the  brain  (or  what  some  people  call 
mind)  ? 

It  is  the  claim  of  Autology  that  the  "type,"  as  well 
as  the  sum  total,  of  that  socalled  "mental"  or  thinking 
moisture  has  as  much  to  do  with  the  kind  or  brand  of 
"mind"  found  or  produced  in  brains  as  the  type  and 
sum  total  of  the  biliary  and  urinary  moistures  found 
or  produced  in  brains  (or  minds)  have  to  do  with  the 
kind  or  brand  of  biliary  and  urinary  moistures  found 
or  produced  in  livers  and  kidneys. 

Who  can  gainsay  that  every  kidney  cell,  or  liver 
cell,  or  stomach  cell,  or  fat  cell,  or  bone  cell,  or  blood 
corpuscle,  is  endowed  with  thought  or  mind-incubat- 
ing brains  of  their  ov.'n?  Or  that  every  brain  cell  is 
endowed  with  bile-  and  urine-incubating  livers  and 
kidneys  of  their  own — just  as  planets  are  provided 
with  suns  and  stars  and  constellations  of  their  own? 
No  one. 

Who  can  say  that  the  same  laws  (or  mechanism) 
that  govern  the  production  and  operation  of  physical 


40  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

bile  and  urine  in  "living"  tissues  do  not  also  govern 
the  production  and  operation  of  "mental"  mind  and 
thoughts  in  "living"  brains  and  other  tissues — ^just  as 
the  same  laws  (or  mechanism)  that  govern  the  pro- 
duction and  operation  of  physical  electricity  and  light 
in  the  heavens  also  govern  the  production  and  opera- 
tion of  physical  electricity  and  light  in  the  factories, 
or  the  "mental"  (so-called)  electricity  and  light  in 
blood  corpuscles  and  brain  cells? 

And  now  comes  the  practical  application  of  the  fore- 
going cogitations,  or  "hatching"  of  mind  in  brain 
through  light,  air,  water  and  foods. 

Again  livers  and  kidneys  turn  up — ^because  people 
"think"  they  know  more  about  bile  and  urine  than 
they  do  about  mind.  But  they  don't.  And  they  think 
they  do  simply  because  they  can  control  better  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  the  bile  and  urine  their  livers 
and  kidneys  produce  than  the  quantity  and  quality  of 
the  mind  and  thoughts  their  brains  excrete. 

I  say  excrete,  instead  of  secrete  or  produce ;  because 
very  few  brains  actually  secrete  a  perceptible  moisture 
of  mind  or  thoughts,  although  their  fingers  and  feet 
and  eyes  and  skins  and  vulgar  internal  organs  do  pro- 
duce a  wonderful  stock  of  it  or  them  (mind  or 
thoughts).  Watch  dancers'  legs  and  hands  and  eyes 
and  see  the  amount  and  type  of  mind  or  thoughts  those 
legs  and  bands  and  eyes  "secrete" ! 

As  the  quality  and  quantity  of  the  bile  and  urine 
your  organs  produce  vary  with  and  depend  on  the 
character,  quantity  and  proportion  of  the  natural  ele- 
ments found  in  light,  air,  liquids  and  solids ;  so  also  do 
the  quality  and  quantity  of  the  mind  and  thoughts 


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your  brains  or  cells  produce  vary  with  and  depend  on 
the  character,  quantity  and  proportion  of  the  natural 
elements  found  in  light,  air,  liquids  and  solids — and  on 
nothing  else,  much. 

As  mind  can't  produce  "live"  air,  so  mind  can't  pro- 
duce "live"  thoughts,  or  living  health  or  sickness. 

Time  does  not  make  watches.  Mind  does  not  make 
"brains."  But  as  watches  keep  time  when  physically 
wound  up,  so  brains  keep  mind  when  physically 
wound  up.  How  can  brain  cells  be  physically  wound 
up  so  as  to  keep  and  "tick"  forth  good,  reliable  "ment- 
al" seconds  or  thoughts?  Just  exactly  in  the  same 
way  that  liver  cells  can  be  physically  wound  up  to 
ooze  out  good,  reliable  bile  drops,  or  kidney  cells  to 
"drip"  good,  reliable  urine  drops.  That's  simple 
enough,  isn't  it?  Yet,  much  simpler  than  you  think. 
Let's  see. 

A  wool-thread  is  made  of  wool-fibres ;  a  silk-thread, 
of  silk-fibres.  A  nerve-thread  is  made  of  nerve-fibres ; 
a  muscle-thread,  of  muscle-fibres.  A  honey-comb  is 
made  of  bees-wax  filled  with  bees-honey.  A  muscle- 
comb  (a  bundle  of  muscle  cells)  is  made  of  muscle- 
wax  (membrane)  filled  with  muscle-honey  (proto- 
plasm) ;  a  liver-comb  is  made  of  liver-wax  (cell-mem- 
brane) filled  with  liver-honey  (protoplasm  and  bile)  ; 
a  kidney-comb  is  made  of  kidney-wax  filled  with  kid- 
ney-honey, or  urine-protoplasm;  a  bone-comb  is  made 
of  bone-wax  filled  with  bone-honey  or  marrow;  an 
ovum-  or  spermatozoon-comb  is  made  of  ovum-  or 
sperm-wax  filled  with  ovarian  or  seminal  honey;  and, 
finally,  a  nerve-  or  brain-com.b  is  made  of  nerve-  or 
brain-wax  filled  with  nerve  or  brain  honey.  But  of 
what  "make"? 


42  A  u  t  o  i  o  g  y — Study    Thyself 

That  depends.  That's  why  there  is  more  apparent 
and  real  difference  between  individuals'  and  nations' 
minds,  ideas  and  morals  than  there  is  between  their 
biles,  urines  and  corruptions;  for,  pray  tell  me,  what 
can  nerves  and  brain  do  when  forced  to  transform  into 
mind  a  type  of  jelly  that's  better  apt  to  fill  up  livers  or 
kidneys  with? 

Hence,  the  average  individual  "thinks"  more  about 
and  better  with  his  stomach,  or  liver,  or  bowels,  or  kid- 
neys, etc.,  than  about  or  with  his  brain.  It  stands  to 
common  sense  that  a  "misfit"  in  the  way  of  liver  pro- 
toplasm may  "just  fit"  the  brain-comb  of  a  certain  in- 
dividual ;  but  it  is  bound  to  remind  its  new  owner  (the 
brain)  or  you  of  its  original  owner  (the  liver),  for 
which  it  was  meant.  That  is  the  only  reason  why 
most  people  keep  everlastingly  thinking  of  their  livers, 
stomachs,  kidneys,  etc.,  etc.  What  else  could  or  can 
they  do — seeing  that  their  brains  which  demand  mind- 
producing  physical  elements  and  compounds  are  served 
naught  else  but  liver  or  bile  and  kidney  or  urine  pro- 
ducing material,  possibly  seasoned  a  little  vnth  "men- 
tal" catsup? 

Organized  material  which  is  naturally  adapted  to 
the  production  of  that  form  of  serum,  protoplasm  and 
slime  which  suits  the  purposes  of  livers,  kidneys,  bow- 
els, sexual  organs,  etc.,  cannot  but  tend  to  evolve 
"thinks"  and  acts  in  accord  with  the  ways  that  livers, 
kidneys,  bowels,  etc.,  would  think  and  behave  if  they 
occupied  the  cranial  cavity  of  the  individual.  The 
fact  that  an  individual's  brain  can't  crawl  out  of  its 
bone-prison,  any  more  than  a  yolk  can  out  of  its  shell, 
does  not  mean  that  it  can't  incubate  or  hatch  mind  or 


Au  top  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  43 

thoughts  of  an  order  that  other  tissues  or  organs  emit 
or  produce — just  as  an  egg-yolk  is  capable  of  incubat- 
ing and  hatching  stench  quite  as  well  as  a  chick. 

In  a  word,  when  brain  cells  are  forced  to  feed,  year 
in  and  year  out  from  infancy  to  maturity,  on  the  kind 
of  light  and  air  and  liquids  and  solids  which  are  best 
adapted  to  forming  liver  and  bile,  kidneys  and  urine, 
slime  and  "discharges" ;  it  follows  that  such  brain  cell- 
substance  must  necessarily  incubate  and  hatch  some 
sort  of  bile-tainted,  or  urine-tainted,  or  slime-tainted, 
or  something  else-tainted  minds  or  thoughts — some 
sort  of  dyspeptic,  or  epileptic,  or  jaundiced,  or  catarrh- 
al, or  rheumatic,  or  immoral,  or  criminal  notions  and 
actions.  That,  to  me,  is  as  clear  as  day — so  self-evi- 
dent that  it  looks  like  repeating  a  platitude.  Why  then 
has  not  the  human  brain  seen  this  subject-matter  or 
problem  in  that  physically  "mental"  and  "moral"  way? 
Presumably  because  the  up-to-date  brain  hates  to  go 
back  as  much  as  it  is  not  fed  to  move  ahead;  it  is 
"tickled"  to  read  of  hov/  Columbus  smashed  one  "pole" 
of  that  historical  egg  and  thus  made  it  "stand"  upright 
on  the  royal  table,  but  it  is  quite  as  much  at  a  loss  to 
initiate  action  in  its  cells  as  Columbus's  contempo- 
raries were  to  "incubate"  a  chicken  without  a  hen.  Any 
farmer's  son  or  daughter  knows  how  now-a-days — giv- 
en the  eggs;  and  when  the  "chicks"  are  hatched,  giv- 
en the  light  and  air  and  water  and  foods.  And  so, 
likewise,  shall  parents  and  youths  know  how  to  incu- 
bate mind  and  hatch  brains  and  genius,  given  the 
brain-substance  producing  "yolks";  and  when  the  in- 
fants are  bom,  given  the  light  and  air  and  water  and 
foods.     That's  all.     That's  livingness.     That's  brain 


44  Autolog  y — Study   Thyself 

and  mind.  That's  health  and  licknesi.  That's  mor- 
ality and  immorality. 

Therefore,  our  brains  and  minds,  like  the  chicken's, 
are  the  product  or  outcome  of  the  awakening  of  phy- 
sical and  chemical  compounds  existing  in  the  "incubat- 
ed" or  impregnated  ovum-cell  (or  egg)  by  means  of 
heat,  air,  moisture  and  food — which  condition  and  ele- 
ments enable  those  blood  and  flesh  compounds  to  move 
in  that  type  of  motion  (call  it  by  any  name  you  like) 
which  organizes  the  "yellow"  and  "white"  into  "liv- 
ing" brain  or  tissue,  as  a  rule ;  but  sometimes  disorga- 
nizes the  "yellow"  and  "white"  into  putrefactive  gases 
and  ashes. 

That  there  is  some  sort  of  physico-mental  matter  in 
the  egg-yolk,  as  in  seed-yolks,  is  certain ;  but  that  the 
hen's  mind  or  socalled  "hereditary"  influence  has  less 
to  do  with  incubating  a  chicken's  brain  or  hatching  a 
chicken's  mind  in  the  egg  she  sits  on  than  has  the  heat 
of  her  body  is  absolutely  certain.  For  anybody  can 
turn  the  same  "hen"  trick  in  an  incubator. 

Also,  that  there  is  some  sort  of  physico-mental  mat- 
ter in  human  brain-yolk  is  certain;  but  that  parents' 
or  heredity's  minds  have  less  to  do  with  incubating 
children's  brains  or  hatching  children's  minds  in  hu- 
man skulls  than  have  heat  and  light  and  air  and  water 
and  foods,  or  than  have  children's  own  hair,  noses  and 
stomachs,  is  likewise  most  positively  certain — even 
though  no  one  can  turn  the  same  trick  in  an  ordinary 
incubator. 

Correct  must  begin  to  appear  to  you  this'  "physical" 
or  autologic  doctrine  of  raising  brains  and  hatching 
minds  therein,  as  glycogen  and  digestive  juices  are 


Autopathy — Cure   Thyself  45 

hatched  in  their  respective  organs,  instead  of  raisiiig 
and  hatching  foreign  or  unsuitable  substances  and 
products  in  the  brain  as  is  so  universally  done  in  homes 
and  schools  and  shops  and  offices  under  the  prevailing 
systems  of  diet,  schooling  and  belief.  And,  logical 
and  scientific  must  appear  to  any  reader  the  contention 
that  heredity,  or  birth,  or  atavism,  or  genius,  etc.,  has 
nothing  at  all  to  do  with  the  gifting,  or  the  raising, 
or  the  hatching,  of  brains,  or  of  minds,  or  of  ability, 
talent  or  genius  in  a  child's  skull. 

Do  I  mean  to  say  that  geniuses  are  not  bom?  I  do 
— flatly.  Do  I  mean  to  insinuate  that  the  child  of  a 
University  Professor  does  not  inherit  a  more  brilliant 
brain  or  mind  than  does  the  child  of  ignorant  parents? 
I  do — most  assuredly  do. 

Geniuses  are  not  born.    Chumps  are  not  born. 

But  brain-matter  is  born  just  like  kidney-matter, 
not  knowing  exactly  what  it's  going  to  do  or  become 
until  it  finds  out  what  kind  of  light  and  air  and  food  it 
is  about  to  get  through  the  medium  of  the  blood, 
which,  in  turn  gets  them  from  the  bedroom  and  moth- 
er's breast — perhaps;  and  perhaps  from  the  dickens 
knows  where.  At  any  rate  I  know  from  where  in  at 
least  999  in  1000  "cases";  and  the  thousandth,  or  more 
correctly  speaking,  the  millionth,  gets  the  outdoor  light 
and  air  and  "wholesome"  mother's  milk.  That's  how 
geniuses  are  "born" — which  means  "raised."  That's 
how  "chumps"  are  not  "born,"  but  are  actually  un- 
born after  they  come  into  this  ready-made  world  of 
genius-filled  light,  air,  water  and  foods. 

Like  kidney  or  liver  substance,  brain-matter  is  cast 
after  a  mould  and  cast  out  into  a  world  of  natural  and 


46  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

"artifical'*  light,  air,  water  and  foods  whose  respec- 
tive properties  are  to  hatcii  and  raise  various  but  vary- 
ing  grades  of  physico-mental  products  in  brain  tissue, 
as  well  as  various  and  sundry  grades  of  bile,  urine,  di- 
gestive juices,  slime,  etc.,  in  other  tissues — in  confor- 
mity with  the  different  grades  of  either  the  natural  or 
the  artificial  lights,  airs,  waters  and  foods  which  par- 
ents feed  on  before  conception  and  which  mothers  feed 
to  their  fecundated  ova  and  developing  embryos  dur- 
ing the  months  of  pregnancy ;  and  in  conformity  with 
the  grade  of  the  said  physical  substances  which  fath- 
ers and  mothers,  guardians  or  teachers,  nurses  or  rela- 
tives and  others  "feed  to"  the  growing  children. 

I  grant  that  the  geniuses  of  the  past  as  well  as  the 
geniuses  of  the  present  day  and  of  some  days  to  come 
were  or  are  "born" ;  but  not  at  all  in  the  accepted 
meaning  that  obtains.  They  were  "nurture-born"  of 
and  in  conditions  and  environments  which  accident- 
ally happened  to  "match"  the  natural  conditions,  in 
the  way  of  physical  light,  air,  water  and  foods,  which 
normally  and  "selectively"  could  not  fail  to  hatch  and 
raise  that  species  of  brain-matter  and  mind-juice  which 
tradition  is  wont  to  call  genius. 

Of  course  a  Farmer's  boy  is  the  son  of  a  farmer,  as 
a  Professor's  boy  is  the  son  of  a  professor;  although 
the  "son"  of  a  country  cabbage  may  produce  a  city 
cabbage,  and  vice  versa.  But,  really,  is  the  farmer's 
son  born  with  m.ore  of  a  "farmery"  brain  and  the  pro- 
fessor's son  born  with  more  of  a  university  brain? 
Has  his  mind  more  of  the  barn  or  soil  taint  or  tint  and 
the  other  more  of  the  classical  or  mosaic?  If  so,  then 
the  country  lad  must  also  have  more  of  a  farmer's 
liver  and  bile  than  the  professor's  offspring. 


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And  pray  tell  me,  what  can  have  happened  in  that 
farmer's  son's  brain-matter  and  liver  that  he  seeks  and 
wins  the  Presidency  of  the  University  or  Country? 
And,  what  can  have  transpired  in  that  professor's  son's 
brain-matter  and  liver  that  he  drifts  into  and  becomes 
— well,  you  know  the  old  story?  He,  too,  was  born 
with  a  brain  and  a  liver;  but  either  these  organs 
swapped  places  as  time  flew  on  or  both  had  to  live  on 
the  same  bilious  kind  of  light,  air,  liquids  and  solids. 
It  becoming  a  question  of  "survival  of  the  fittest" 
the  liver  "survived."  Things  progressed  fairly  well 
for  a  time;  the  brain  did  vicarious  duty  for  the  liver 
and  the  liver  for  the  brain ;  some  book-knowledge  was 
absorbed  by  both;  but — sad  to  relate,  even  a  brain 
surrounded  by  all  that  so-called  heredity,  talent  and 
genius  can  offer  cannot  long  absorb  and  hatch  "men- 
tal" and  "moral"  goods  when  its  physical  light  and  air 
and  drinks  and  eatables  are  of  the  rottenest  and  rank- 
est make.    That's  all,  but  that's  it. 

Boys  and  girls,  sons  and  daughters  of  the*country 
and  of  the  city,  let  me  whisper  this  admonition  to  you: 
Don't  live  and  don't  sleep  and  don't  study  in  rooms 
(at  home  or  at  school)  where  the  light  and  air  are  such 
that  you  can't  or  couldn't  raise  beautiful  roses  in  pots 
set  in  the  "living"  room,  in  your  bed  room,  in  your 
school  room.  Don't.  And  don't  drink  what  you 
wouldn't  give  your  pet  canary  to  drink.  Don't.  And 
don't  eat  mixtures  at  any  meal  that  would  make  you 
"sick  to  your  stomach"  if  you  were  asked  to  eat  the 
same  after  it  is  all  mixed  together  in  your  or  any- 
body's stomach.  Don't.  By  so  doing,  by  so  avoiding, 
you  shall  soon  "raise"  a  brain  and  "hatch"  a  mind  that 


48  Autology— Study   Thyself 

shall  surpass  your  elders',  your  teachers',  your  supe- 
riors'— unless  they  take  the  hint  from  you  and  do  like- 
wise. 

Lest  my  meaning  may  not  be  fully  grasped,  let  me 
add,  that  as  the  quality  and  taste,  or  grade,  of  honey 
produced  by  bees  vary,  or  varies,  according  to  the 
light,  air,  moisture  and  foods  (and  never  the  thoughts) 
on  which  bees  feed  their  stomachs  (and  never  their 
minds),  so  also  must  the  quality  and  ability  and  mor- 
ality, or  grade,  of  "brains"  produced  by  children  vary 
according  to  the  light,  air,  water  and  foods  (and  never 
the  thoughts)  on  which  they  feed  their  stomachs  and 
lungs  and  bodies. 

The  only  positive  as  well  as  rational  method  of  pro- 
ducing a  high  order  of  mind  and  morality  in  children, 
as  well  as  in  maintaining  the  like  throughout  man's 
and  woman's  career,  is  to  feed  the  infants',  the  chil- 
dren's and  the  youths'  noses  and  stomachs  with  physi- 
cally material,  or  mentally  and  morally  physical  light, 
air,  water  and  foods. 

Toward  this  achievement  shall  the  next  generation 
devote  much  of  its  money  and  energy. 

As  matters  stand  today,  most  infants  are  forced  to 
evolute  into  morally  or  mentally  deficient  brains  or 
minds;  because  Education's  chief  aim  is  to  implant 
'Cental"  and  "moral"  knowledge  (so-called)  in  chil- 
dren's minds  while,  conjointly.  Civilization  is  stupidly 
compelling  children's  brains  and  functions  to  live  and 
operate  on  mindless  and  immoral  light,  air,  water  and 
foods. 

If  only  children  were  "tended"  until  of  age  as  rose 
bushes  are,  how  safe  it  would  be  to  give  their  brains 


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and  functions  free  play,  then !  And  what  superb  phy- 
sko-mental  and  moral  blossoms  and  flowers  child- 
plants  would  produce !  Just  as  rose  bushes  that  have 
been  watchfully  and  intelligently  lighted,  aired,  wa- 
tered and  fertilized  until  the  age  of  blooming  produce 
beautiful  color-and-perfume-laden  buds  and  roses — 
without  being  taught  or  thoughted  or  mentalized  or 
moralized.  In  a  word,  as  plants  manufacture  their 
own  physical,  mental  and  moral  colors  and  perfumes 
by  organizing  in  their  buds  the  elements  of  light,  air, 
water  and  foods,  so,  likewise,  children  manufacture 
their  own  physical,  mental  and  moral  functions,  vir- 
tues and  vices  by  organizing  in  their  budding  tissues 
and  juices  (organs  and  blood)  the  elements  of  light, 
air,  water  and  foods.    So  also  do  adults. 

Sure  enough  the  rose  bud  may  prove  to  be  a  La 
France  rose  instead  of  an  American  Beauty  or  some 
other  variety  of  the  rose,  but  rest  assured  that  a  gar- 
dener who  understands  his  business  and  "tends"  to  the 
light  and  air  and  water  and  foods  of  that  rose  bush  up 
to  the  budding  period  does  not  worry  about  what  sort 
of  flowers  the  La  France  or  the  American  Beauty  will 
produce,  even  though  the  stems  are  cut  from  the  par- 
ent stock.  He  knows  that  the  blossom  will  be  the 
most  superb  specimen  of  its  type.  The  gardener  will 
never  expect  or  attempt  to  convert  a  carnation  into  a 
chrysanthemum  or  a  chrysanthemum  into  a  peony; 
but  he  knows  that  he  can  cultivate  and  fertilize  a  car- 
nation plant  into  producing  a  "pink"  that  will  rival 
a  chrysanthemum  in  many  respects  and  surpass  it  in 
many  others;  or  a  chrysanthemum  that  will  rival  or 
surpass  a  peony.    In  other  words,  he  aims  to  raise  and 


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hatch  the  finest  specimen  of  flower-brain  and  color- 
mind  in  a  given  type  of  plant  and  he  succeeds.  And 
so  would  parents  if  they  used  the  same  quality  of  cul- 
tivating and  fertilizing  sense  and  physical  light  and 
air  and  water  and  nourishment  that  the  gardener  uses. 

The  gardener  calls  his  method  "cultivating  and  fer- 
tilizing"— and  he  succeeds  in  producing  geniuses  in 
flower-brains  or  buds. 

You  call  your  method  "culturing  and  mentalizing" 
— and  you  fail  to  produce  geniuses  in  child-brains  or 
minds.  You  should  fail.  For  a  child  or  brain  won't 
stand  "culturing"  or  "mentalizing"  any  more  or  with 
anything  else  than  a  plant  or  bud  will.  But,  as 
plants  and  buds,  children  or  brains  will  stand  all  of 
and  the  same  kind  of  cultivating  and  fertilizing;  and 
under  such  cultivating  and  fertilizing  they  too  will 
produce  the  most  superb,  gorgeous  specimens  of  their 
types.    In  no  other  way  and  by  no  other  means. 

Did  you  ever  see  a  gardener  standing  over  a  rose 
bush,  lecturing  or  mentalizing  it  by  reading  or  talking 
to  it  book  lore,  while  keeping  that  potted  or  plotted 
bush  in  artificial  light,  or  carbonized  air,  or  "watering" 
it  with  beverages  or  fertilizing  it  with  inappropriate 
material,  etc?  Well,  how  can  you  expect  that  you  or 
teachers  or  books  can  cultivate  and  fertilize  children's 
brains  or  minds  by  talking  or  readijig  or  otherwise 
while  keeping  them  potted  or  unpotted  in  artificial 
light,  carbonized  air,  or  "watering"  or  "feeding"  them 
with  brainless  and  mindless  liquids  and  foods?  You 
can't— that's  all  there  is  to  that.  And  that's  why 
when  I  "show"  a  fine  specimen  which  Autology  has 
raised  or  hatched,  cultivated  or  fertilized,  some  say: 


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"O,  well,  he  inherits  his  brain  and  mind  and  looks  and 
physique  from  his  father  and  mother."  Quite  compli- 
mentary that — but  nevertheless  no  more  correct  than 
saying  that  the  Lawson  carnation  inherited  its  brains 
and  mind  from  the  gardener  who  "raised"  it. 

If  the  physical  elements  of  light,  air,  water  and 
foods  (L-A-W-F)  which  children's  hair,  noses  and 
mouths  transmit  to  their  brains  are  inappropriate  or 
deficient  in  certain  respects,  it  is  evident  that  their 
brain  function  or  mind,  juices  or  products,  thoughts 
and  behavior,  is  or  are  bound  to  be  or  become  mentally 
and  morally  impaired  or  perverted,  deficient  or  vicious ; 
for  the  products  and  by-products  of  their  nervous  sys- 
tem as  well  as  of  all  the  functionating  organs  or  tissues 
of  their  organism  are  or  become  deficient  or  deleteri- 
ous,— physically,  mentally  and  morally. 

Therefore,  I  say,  mentalize  or  think  nothing  into 
children's  heads  any  more  than  into  their  kidneys  or 
livers,  but  let  their  hair  and  noses  and  mouths  have 
the  light  and  air  and  water  and  foods  that  their  toe- 
nails as  well  and  as  m.uch  as  their  mind-juice  demand. 
If  you  do,  you'll  be  giving  your  child,  and  incidentally 
yourself,  the  sort  of  light  and  air  and  water  and  foods 
that  Mentality  and  Morality  demand  and  thrive  best 
on. 

By  a  providential  disposition  of  nature,  mentality 
and  morality  demand  and  thrive  best  on  that  "make" 
of  light,  air,  water  and  foods  which  functionality  of 
our  organs  and  tissues  demands  and  thrives  best  on. 
And,  fortunately,  the  mentality  and  morality  and  func- 
tionality of  all  children  and  all  adults,  of  all  organs 
and  all  tissues,  demand  and  thrive  best  on  the  same 


52  Autology — Study   Thyself 

make  of  light,  air  and  water — thus  leaving  us  only  the 
problem  of  the  quality  and  mixture  and  proportion  of 
the  various  foods  proper  to  solve ;  the  solution  of  which 
problem  is  quite  a  simple  one. 

During  what  is  called  intra-uterine  life  (before 
"birth"),  or  during  the  incubating  process  of  the  fetus 
(human  embryo),  the  most  appropriate  "physical"  and 
"mental"  and  "moral"  foods  for  the  children  are  also 
the  best  foods  for  the  mother.  And  the  most  appro- 
priate foods  for  the  mother  during  the  months  of 
pregnancy  are  also  the  most  wholesome  and  brain- 
some  foods  for  her  during  the  periods  preceding  and 
following  pregnancy.  Only  this — that  the  bulk  of  the 
proper  mixture  of  foods  fluctuates  somewhat  with  heat 
or  force  and  tissue  requirements  which  work  and 
changed  conditions  impose  on  the  mother.  Natural 
hunger  easily  settles  this  question  when  a  mother 
looks  upon  the  period  of  pregnancy  in  a  sensible,  re- 
spectable way ;  and  when  the  mother  understands  why 
and  what  she  eats — I  mean  when  she  eats  and  lives 
for  the  purpose  of  supplying  her  own  blood  with  those 
natural  elements  of  light,  air,  water  and  foods  which 
invariably  go  to  making  brains  and  mind  in  her  own 
head  as  well  as  "wholesome"  bile  and  excretions  in  her 
own  body.  If  writers  would  only  quit  scribbling  about 
"prenatal  influences";  about  the  alleged  influence  of 
the  mother's  mind  on  the  fetus's  mind  (v^^hich  it  hasn't 
got) — and  if,  instead,  they  would  Rip- Van- Winkle  it 
off  until  they  are  prepared  to  understand  that  mothers 
can't  "influence"  or  think  anything  that  pertains  to 
mentality  or  morality  into  their  skulled  or  unskulled 
fetuses  when  these  same  mothers  are  stuffing  their 


Autopath  y — Cure    Thyself  53 

own  placentas,  or  their  infants*  umbilical  cords,  with 
a  variety  of  air,  liquids  and  eatables  that  are  suitable 
for  producing  rank  bile  or  slime,  not  to  call  it  worse 
names. 

An  advantage  that  mothers  and  infants  have  over 
their  fellow-beings,  called  plants  and  flowers,  is  that 
human-plants  are  capable  of  seeking  and  getting  the 
most  suitable  forms  of  light,  air,  water  and  fertilizers 
or  foods  which  they  and  their  children  need.  That's 
something  flower-plants  can't  do— ^at  any  rate  when 
most  human-plants  get  hold  of  them. 

But — and  this  is  where  the  trouble  arises  and  why 
the  child-product  is  so  frequently  a  failure,  as  it  is 
often  with  the  flower-product  in  the  average  hands — 
the  mother  accepts  or  seeks  some  spurious  brand  of 
light,  air,  water  and  foods  which  ignorant  or  foolishly 
"cultured"  minds  and  morals  and  habits  impose  on 
her  and  around  her.  Hence  more  sheep  brains  and 
minds  are  "influenced"  into  the  world  than  sheep  liv- 
ers and  biles — though,  to  be  logically  and  scientifically 
correct,  brains  and  minds  are  made  to  acquire  the 
properties  and  functions  of  sheepishness  only  after 
they  have  been  subjected  to  the  conventional  feeding 
and  lighting  and  airing  and  watering  of  civilized  man- 
ners, customs  and  schoolings  which  obtain  in  all  kin- 
dergartens, schools  and  universities.  I  mean  it  and  I 
can  prove  it.  I've  seen  it  and  I've  been  there — and  so 
have  most  readers.  It'll  be  a  cold  day  v^en  any 
power  on  earth  or  elsewhere  attempts  to  light  and  air 
and  water  and  feed  any  child  of  mine  with  sheepifying 
light  and  air  and  water  and  foods  of  the  "'moBtar  as 
well  as  of  the  physical  brand.    I've  got  no  kick  com- 


54  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

ing,  except  that  it  has  taken  me  nearly  as  many  years 
to  disacquire  the  physical  and  mental  structure  and 
texture  which  conventional  environments  and  dietetic 
ignorance  imposed  on  me  during  the  years  I  spent  in 
schools  and  universities. 

I  grant  that  parents  and  the  public  don't  know  any 
better,  and  thus  are  wont  to  rely  on  the  advice  of 
some  who  are  supposed  to  know;  who  "think"  they 
know — but  who  neither  Know  nor  Think.  They  mere- 
ly repeat  or  reuse  borrowed,  bethoughted  physical  and 
mental  and  notional  light,  air,  water  and  foods — as 
they  rebreathe  their  own  exhalations  and  compel 
others  to  do  likewise. 

Without  presently  going  into  tedious  details  and 
explanations  as  to  what  foods  are  best  adapted  for 
raising  brains  and  incubating  or  hatching  minds  in 
men,  women  and  children,  for  breakfast,  dinner  and 
lunch,  I  desire  to  state  some  reasons  why  certain 
articles  of  foods  proper  are  best  suited  to  produce 
high-grade  brains  and  minds  as  well  as  superior 
brands  of  other  tissues  and  products. 

It  being  obvious  that  all  other  organs  and  functions, 
than  brain  and  mind,  are  never  at  a  loss  to  develop  and 
improve  themselves  and  to  produce  a  good,  serviceable 
grade  of  their  respective  secretions  and  excretions 
when  the  brain  has  sense  enough  to  help  itself  to  the 
kind  and  to  the  amount  and  to  the  proper  mixture  of 
the  foods  that  are  best  suited  to  its  own  physical,  men- 
tal and  moral  purposes  or  operations — I  may  be  per- 
mitted to  ignore  the  ordinary  physical  organs  and 
functions. 

Silk  goods  are  made  of  silk,  stitched  with  silk, 
trimmed  with  silk  (or  better)  and  repaired  or  mended 


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01  replaced  with  silk.  Calico  is  not — nor  is  there 
ingenuity  enough  to  invent  a  process  whereby  cotton 
is  made  into  silk.  So,  likewise,  there  isn't  a  tissue  or 
process  or  ferment  in  the  body  that  ca.n  transform 
liver  "cotton"  into  brain  "silk,"  or  produce  mind  from 
bile. 

You  can  "contrast"  different  or  antagonistic  colors, 
but  you  cannot  "match"  colors  unless  the  pigments 
which  "own"  the  colors  are  alike. 

On  the  other  hand,  you  should  know  that  brain 
substance  produces  brain  protoplasm  like  itself,  and 
that  brain  protoplasm  produces  physical  and  mental 
products;  and  that  brain  substance  calls  for  like  ma- 
terial in  repairing  or  mending  its  substance,  and 
"matching"  its  products.  And  you  should  know  that 
you  can  "contrast"  different  ideas,  but  you  cannot 
"match"  ideas  unless  the  constituents  which  "own" 
the  ideas  or  thoughts  are  alike. 

Again,  you  know  that  the  nearer  to  mother's  milk 
is  bottle-fed  milk,  the  better  and  more  adapted  it  is 
for  the  child's  nutrition  and  growth.  And  the  more 
wholesome  the  mother's  milk  the  more  "wholesome" 
the  brain  and  mind  and  behavior  of  the  infant. 

Therefore,  the  nearer  to  "wholesome"  brain  mat- 
ter and  mind-juice  is  the  mouth-fed  food  ingested  the 
better  and  more  appropriate  it  is  for  the  brain's  phys- 
ical, mental  and  moral  nutrition,  development  and  be- 
havior. 

Let  us,  then,  see  of  what  brain  substance  is  made, 
and  for  purposes  of  comparison  and  elucidation,  let 
us  see  of  what  procreative  and  egg-yolk  substances 
are  made. 


56  Autology — Study  Thyself 

Brain-matter  consists  of — 
Water, 
Fats, 
Protagon, 
Cholesterin, 
Nuclein, 
Cerebrin, 
Lecithin, 
Minerals. 
Now,  chemical  analysis  of  egg-yolk  and  of  seminal 
fluid  reveals  a  composition  of  like  constituents,  bear- 
ing the  same  names. 

Egg-yellow  contains  an  albuminoid  called  "vitellin" 
which  is  closely  related  to  the  albuminoid  of  blood 
(globulin) ;  and  contains  also  a  ferruginous  nuclein 
called  "hematogen"  (blood  producing)  and  discovered 
by  Bunge,  of  Germany.  Its  other  constituents  are 
protagon,  lecithin,  fats,  cholesterin,  cerebrin  and  phos- 
phates, in  which  it  is  rich;  also  sulphates  and  traces 
of  iron. 

The  chemical  constitution  of  generative  substance 
is  also  represented  by  albuminoids,  lecithin,  cerebrin, 
cholesterin,  fats,  phosphates  and  sulphates. 

And,  besides,  the  relative  proportions  of  the  con- 
stituents of  the  foregoing  substances  are  respectively 
very  similar— only  that  the  brain  and  egg  yolk  are 
richer  in  fats  and  the  other  in  phosphorized  proteids. 
My  reasons  for  calling  attention  to  the  chemical 
constitution  of  generative  matter  (ovum  and  sperma- 
to2:oon)  is  because  embryology  cannot  afford  to  over- 
look the  fact  that,  as  the  egg-yolk  is  rich  in  those 
highly  organic  substances  which  "incubation"  helps 


Autopathy — Cure   Thyself  57 

to  evolve  into  the  highest  type  of  chick  of  its  kind, 
so  the  richer  the  fecundated  human  egg-yolk  is  in 
those  highly  organic  bodies  which  "pregnancy"  helps 
to  evolve,  the  higher  the  type  of  child  born  of  parents. 
Which,  mind  well,  does  not  mean  that  a  poor  type 
cannot  after  birth  be  evolved  through  light,  air,  water 
and  foods  into  the  equal  or  rival  of  the  highest  type 
born  of  other  parents.  But  it  is  in  the  nature  of  things 
and  sense  that  it  is  better  to  begin  a  thing  well  than 
it  is  to  begin  it  ill,  and  then  to  make  it  well. 

Therefore,  eggs  constitute  the  best  and  brainiest 
food  for  father  and  mother  and  child  before  and  after 
conception  and  birth. 

It  is  stated  in  books  on  dietetics  that  eggs  are  a 
"complete"  food  in  themselves,  although  they  lack 
starch;  but  no  definite  study  has  been  made  that  I 
know  of  with  a  view  to  determining  and  demonstrating 
that  a  diet  consisting  largely  of  eggs,  properly  pre- 
pared and  carefully  associated  with  other  foods  whose 
constituents  act  as  synergists  (friends)  and  not  as 
incompatibles  (enemies),  and  particularly  with  certain 
"vegetables"  which  supply  the  organism  with  depur- 
ating earthy  compounds,  is  the  kind  of  a  diet  which 
shall  produce  the  highest  types  of  "fecundated  ova" 
in  mothers  and  of  brains  and  minds  in  newborns,  as 
well  as  in  growing  children  and  youths.  After  that, 
say  after  the  age  of  fifteen  or  sixteen,  parents  or  com- 
munities would  have  no  reason  to  worry  as  to  what 
became  of  children's  brains  or  minds,  for  their  habits 
of  breathing,  drinking,  eating,  thinking  and  behaving 
would  be  firmly  rooted  and  "fixed"  for  life — at  least 
in  the  majority.    They  would  continue  to  seek  the 


58  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y—Study  Thyself 

light  and  air  and  water  and  foods  and  thoughts  and 
behavior  which  their  hair  and  noses  and  mouths  and 
brains  had  grown  up  on  and  been  accustomed  to. 

Eggs  should  be  eaten  by  parents  and  children  every 
day  in  the  year;  but  particularly  by  the  "expectant" 
and  by  the  "nursing"  mother.  But  they  should  never 
be  prepared  or  cooked  in  a  way,  or  mixed  with  cer- 
tain other  articles  of  diet  either  on  the  stove  or  in  the 
stomach,  which  nullify  or  destroy  the  blood  and  brain 
producing  bodies  which  they  contain.  In  order  to  em- 
phasize this  point,  let  me  remind  you  that  submitting 
an  egg  to  a  certain  "cooking"  degree  of  heat  before 
placing  it  in  an  "incubator"  modifies  or  destroys  some- 
thing in  its  highly  organized  "proteid"  yolk-constitu- 
ents which  creates  the  "embryo"  or  evolves  into  blood 
and  brain  "plasm;"  whereas  submitting  it  to  the  body 
temperature  does  not.  Let  me  also  remark  that  cer- 
tain articles  of  food,  either  before  they  are  swallowed 
or  after  they  are  digested,  contain  or  give  rise  to  fer- 
mentation or  decomposition  products  which  either 
modify  the  fats  and  proteids  of  the  yellow  or  combine 
with  them  to  form  chemical  compounds  which  are 
neither  hematogenic  (blood-producing)  or  brain-pro- 
ducing; but  which  are  transformed  into  objectionable 
gaseous  and  slimy  products  in  the  alimentary  tract. 
Hence  it  is  that  so  many  people  claim  that  eggs  do  not 
"agree"  with  them  or  that  eggs  sicken  their  stomachs 
— which  is  not  and  never  so. 

Milk  is  not  an  appropriate  food  to  mix  with  eggs 
for  reasons  that  would  require  too  much  analytical 
explanation  to  take  up  now.  I  may  say,  however, 
that  eggs  are  an  "animal"  food,  nitrogenous  and  fatty, 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  59 

and  that  milk  is  also  an  "animal"  food,  nitrogenous 
and  fatty;  and,  I  may  add,  that  it  is  chemically  and 
physiologically  unwise  to  mix  or  combine  two  differ- 
ent kinds  of  "animal"  nitrogenous  and  fatty  foods  in 
the  stomach  at  the  one  meal.  At  best,  the  one  or  the 
other  becomes  a  "surplus"  or  remains  behind  as  an 
"excess"  or  waste  to  ferment  or  decompose  as  it  would 
and  does  when  exposed  to  air  and  moisture.  In  a 
word,  the  excess  rots  in  the  alimentary  canal  as  it 
does  in  the  eggshell  or  milk  bottle.  No  more,  nor 
less.  Some  of  the  rotting  products  may  be  disposed 
of  by  the  organism  in  the  form  of  fat  or  bile,  but  cer- 
tainly not  in  the  form  of  brain  and  mind. 

I  should  like  to  enter  into  proofs,  chemical  and 
clinical,  to  convince  readers  why  eggs  and  meat  don't 
go  well  together,  for  blood  and  brain;  why  bread  in 
addition  to  meat  and  potatoes  is  a  mistake;  why  salt, 
sour  and  sweet,  in  certain  mixtures  and  proportions, 
are  inimical  to  blood  and  brain  structure  and  func- 
tions; why  eggs  and  toasted  bread  with  "sweet"  but- 
ter and,  off  and  on,  a  little  fine  bacon  is  an  excellent 
breakfast  combination  for  young  and  old,  for  blood 
and  brain,  for  tissue-building  or  renewing  and  for 
heat  and  force-producing  in  the  body;  why  rice  and 
cream,  or  eggs  and  rice,  is  the  best  lunch-combination 
for  the  body  tissues  and  functions  and  purposes;  and 
why  a  little  fresh  meat  or  fish  or  fowl  with  potatoes 
(baked  or  boiled  with  the  peel)  and  green  peas  or 
string  beans,  or  carrots,  or  onions,  or  parsnips,  or 
tomatoes,  is  the  brain's  choice  for  dinner,  for  nerves 
and  blood,  for  muscles  and  bones,  for  stomachs  and 
bowels,  for  liver  and  kidneys,  for  strength  and  endur- 
ance, for  nutrition  and  health. 


6o  Auto  logy — Study  Thyself 

As  bread,  potatoes  and  rice  are  the  three  "staple" 
starchy  foods,  let  bread  be  eaten  with  breakfast,  rice 
with  lunch  or  supper  and  potato  with  dinner.  Do 
not  indulge  in  any  two  or  the  three  at  the  same  meal ; 
for  second  choice  goes  to  waste  or  fermentation,  as  a 
rule. 

As  peas  are  rich  in  nitrogen  and  fats  and  in  the  ox- 
ides of  potassium,  sodium,  calcium  and  magnesium, 
and  also  in  phosphoric  acid,  favor  them.  Not  only 
because  of  their  nutritious  value,  but  because  the 
earthy  or  soil  minerals  which  their  substance  is  com- 
posed of  furnish  to  your  blood  what  no  doubt  con- 
stitutes the  heart  and  core  of  those  body-compounds 
which  "preserve"  serum  and  lymph  or  which  prevent 
the  organism  from  constantly  sickening  or  souring 
itself. 

In  the  way  of  "seasoning"  brains  and  minds,  as  well 
as  other  organs  and  products,  use  more  "ordinary" 
light  and  air  and  water  and  less  "culinary"  salt  and 
vinegar  and  sugar;  but  be  sure  and  pepper  your  ap- 
petites and  passions  with  "cayenne"  moderation  and 
sense. 

(See  end  of  volume  for  Baby's  Foods  and  Every- 
body's Foods.) 


THE  BODY'S  JELLIES,  JUICES  AND 
SLIMES 

It  isn't  fair  to  say  that  our  body  is  three-fourths 
"water."  We're  not  as  "thin"  or  clean  as  that  insinu- 
ates. The  truth  is  that  our  body  is  four-fifths  slime 
and  jelly — a  little  more  at  "sweet  sixteen"  and  a  little 
less  at  venerable  sixty.  The  jelly  of  which  we  are 
made  is  moulded  into  variously  shaped  masses  (or- 
gans), or  strips  (membranes),  or  tubes  (blood  vessels 
and  canals),  or  shredded  bundles  (muscles  and  nerves), 
etc.  Some  of  the  jelly  masses  are  gray  and  white 
(brain  and  nerves) ;  some  are  quite  red  (blood,  liver, 
spleen,  muscles),  etc.;  but  all  of  the  masses  and  strips 
and  tubes  and  fibres  are  bathed  in  and  out  in  common, 
ordinary,  vulgar  slime — ^politely  called  "juices,"  or 
"mucus,"  or  "serum,"  or  "plasm,"  or  "protoplasm." 
The  name  "mucus"  is  given  to  the  stuff  which  is  popu- 
larly known  as  slime — it  oozes  from  mucous  mem- 
branes. The  name  "serum"  is  given  to  the  stuff  which 
exudes  from  blood,  or  brain,  or  joints,  or  pleura,  etc.,^ 
it  is  popularly  known  as  "dropsy"  or  "water"  when  it 
accumulates  to  excess.  The  name  "plasm"  is  given 
to  the  clotting  liquid  which  forms  the  blood  stream 
and  in  which  float  the  red  and  white  blood  corpuscles. 
The  name  "protoplasm"  is  given  to  the  jelly  which 
constitutes  the  mother-substance  of  the  cells  of  organs 

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and  tissues — known  as  flesh  proper.  And  the  ma- 
terial called  "juice"  is  that  which  comes  from  digestive 
organs,  or  glands — the  stomach  juice  being  the  one 
generally  supposed  to  be  the  most  important. 

If  you  were  to  collect  a  cup  full  of  each  one  of  these 
various  juices,  or  to  squeeze  pieces  of  any  one  of  the 
organs  or  tissues  of  the  body  (including  the  skin)  and 
thus  extract  their  juices,  as  you  do  when  "pressing" 
fruits — you  would  find  that  the  various  juices  and 
mucus  and  serum  and  plasm  and  protoplasm  which 
you  have  extracted  or  collected  are  one  and  all  alike 
and  "slimy."  In  other  words,  healthy  as  well  as  un- 
healthy organs  and  tissues  and  fluids  are  of  "slime" 
slimy. 

That  need  not  make  you  love  thy  brother  or  thy- 
self less,  but  it  should  make  you  marvel  more  at  the 
omnipotent  Wisdom  that  devised  a  means  or  a  ma- 
terial which  answers  all  the  gaseous  and  "fluid"  and 
"solid"  needs  and  conditions  of  the  body — a  fluid  or 
jelly  or  slime  which  in  the  same  place  and  in  different 
places  acts  as  a  lubricant  and  a  nutriment  and  a 
digestive  and  a  reconstructive  and  a  detoxicant  and  an 
eliminant — at  one  and  the  same  instant.  And,  still 
more  wonderful  is  the  fact  that  these  "slimy"  sub- 
stances and  liquids  should  contain  the  mysterious 
"live"  things  or  agents  that  attend  to  all  the  functions 
of  the  organism;  and  that  these  "live"  agents,  called 
"ferments,"  should  live  and  act  and  travel  in  such  a 
vehicle  as  ordinary  slime. 

Ferments  are  nothing  more  nor  less  than  ordinary 
"yeast"  things.  The  "yeast"  of  bread,  of  beer,  of 
"mold,"  of  vinegar,  of  sour  milk,  of  saliva,  of  stomach 


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juice,  of  pancreatic  juice,  of  bowel  juice,  of  brain  and 
nerve  juice,  of  muscle  juice,  of  urine,  of  bile,  of  mar- 
row, of  generative  organs,  of  bacteria,  etc.,  etc.,  are 
fundamentally  alike  in  their  structure  and  function 
and  products.  Their  unlikeness  is  merely  one  of  na- 
tionality. Those  which  exist  and  operate  in  the  human 
body,  or  in  any  particular  organ  or  tissue  or  fluid  of 
the  body,  are  native  born  and  bred;  others  are  aliens 
which  may  become  naturalized. 

To  my  mind,  the  source  of  unhealthy  or  foul  dis- 
charges or  oozings,  which  necessarily  must  come  from 
or  become  part  of  the  blood  tar,  is  clearly  traceable  to 
an  excess  of  one  or  more,  or  to  a  poor  grade  or  bad 
mixture,  of  the  tissue-yeasts  (ferments)  and  their 
products — becoming  overcrowded  at  home  or  invading 
neighboring  or  foreign  territory. 

To  make  my  meaning  clear,  let  us  assume  that  some 
organ,  say  your  liver,  manufactures  an  excess  of  "bile" 
or  "liver-sugar"  yeast  or  ferment.  Not  necessarily  a 
sick  variety  of  it,  but  an  excess  of  the  healthy  kind. 

Now,  that  excess  must  find  work  to  do,  or  obey  the 
mandates  of  the  conditions  which  lead  us  to  say  that 
"idleness  is  the  devil's  work  shop ;"  or  that  overcrowd- 
ing leads  to  "slumming."  Finding  no  natural  exit 
through  the  bowels,  or  work  to  do  in  the  small  intes- 
tine, it  must  roam  around  through  the  streets  and 
lofts  and  alleys  of  the  body — till  it  is  either  "turned 
out  or  locked  up"  as  catarrh,  or  cold,  or  rheumatism, 
or  biliousness,  or  pleurisy,  etc.— or  until  it  stirs  up  a 
free-for-all  fight  in  the  way  of  "fevers."  You  may  ap- 
ply the  very  same  truth  and  reasoning  to  the  digestive 
ferments,  and  to  the  muscle  ferments,  and  nerve  fer* 


64  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study  Thyself 

merits,  and  brain  ferments,  and  lung  ferments,  etc. 
Plus  their  slimes  of  course.  But  bear  well  in  mind  that 
it  is  not  at  all  necessary  to  assume  that  any  given  fer- 
ment-endowed juice  or  slime  must  be  "sickly"  or 
"microbe-infected"  in  order  to  occasion  any  or  all  of 
the  disturbances  to  which  your  flesh  and  skins  or  hol- 
lows and  tubings  are  heir  to.  In  the  department  store 
of  the  body,  the  Head  Slime  of  each  organ  or  tissue  is 
"Boss" — and  will  brook  no  outside  or  inside  interfer- 
ence or  imposition  without  protesting  or  "flaring  up." 
Therefore — and  this  is  what  I  desire  to  engrave  deep 
in  your  brain — do  not  deceive  yourself  with  the  idea 
that  your  sickness  necessarily  means  that  something's 
got  into  you  that  doesn't  belong  there.  For,  the  "aver- 
age" case  of  sickness  is  mostly  due  to  too  much  some- 
thing "good"  going  from  your  blood  or  stomach  or 
liver  or  bowels  to  your  head,  or  lungs,  or  skin,  or 
bladder,  or  kidneys,  or  womb,  or  muscles,  or  nerves,  or 
fat,  etc.,  etc.  That  "excess"  or  "overstock"  contains 
certain  chemicals  which  invariably  pick  a  quarrel  with 
the  resident-chemicals  of  other  organs  and  tissues. 
The  result  of  which  quarrel  may  be  anything  in  the 
way  of  disease,  or  fever,  or  feeling  out  of  sorts. 

Let  us  figure  this  out  in  this  way.  You  probably  do 
a  fair  amount  of  work  every  day — and,  assuming  that 
you  are  not  engaged  in  doing  hard  manual  labor  out 
of  doors,  you  have  a  notion  that  you  bum  up  or  use  up 
all  the  fuel  or  force  producing  foods  that  you  eat.  Let 
us  say  that  you  eat  some  bread  and  some  other  va- 
riety of  "starchy"  or  "cereal"  or  "breakfast"  food  for 
breakfast.  Then  again  some  bread  and  butter  at  noon, 
besides  potatoes  or  rice,  etc.,  and   once  more  some 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  65 

bread  or  "cookies"  for  or  with  your  supper.  That  of 
course  is  over  and  above  other  dishes  that  you  eat— 
and  I  say  nothing  about  slops,  drinks,  gravies, 
"sweets"  and  "pastries."  Well,  then — all  the  bread 
and  other  starchy  and  sugary  or  doughy  or  sloppy 
things  that  you  eat  are  converted  in  your  system  into 
liver-sugar  or  muscle-sugar,  called  glycogen.  There  is 
practically  no  tissue-value  in  glycogen.  It's  most  all 
fuel  to  be  burned  up — to  produce  heat  and  force,  no- 
tions and  corruptions.  Anything  in  the  line  of  bread  or 
dough,  of  flour  or  pastry,  of  starch  or  cereal,  of  sugar 
or  sweet,  of  cake,  pie,  pudding,  preserves,  etc. — is  not 
properly  speaking  assimilable  food.  It  is  combustible, 
or  inflammable,  or  inflammatory  fuel— regular  soft  and 
hard  coal.  It  gives  you  steam  and  heat  and  motion,  but 
it  gives  you  gas  and  slush  and  fever  and  inflammation 
too.  In  the  first  place,  it  gives  off  heat  by  splitting  into 
carbonic  acid  gas  and  water.  In  the  second  place  it 
produces  a  wasteful  mess  of  slimy  fermenting  juices 
and  refuse,  which  soon  or  late  raise  the  supply  beyond 
the  requirements  of  your  system,  and,  consequently, 
encroach  upon  every  organ  and  tissue  of  your  body 
from  cellar  to  attic — a  mess  that  cannot  fail  to  sour,  or 
to  "fever"  up ;  or  failing  in  that,  to  raise  your  internal 
body  pressure  to  a  dangerous  or  explosive  point,  as 
happens  in  volcanoes. 

If  you  can  make  yourself  understand  the  fact  that 
your  body  is  ever  mouldering  and  trying  to  raise  its 
heat  beyond  983^  degrees  F. — ^toward  the  boiling 
point —  and  that  it  is  only  prevented  from  so  doing  be- 
cause it  is  surrounded  by  a  cooler,  moist  atmosphere; 
and,  particularly,  because  you  are  constantly  pouring 


66  Auto  logy— Study   Thyself 

water  into  your  tanks  and  tubings  and  tissues;  and 
still  more  particularly,  because  you  are  (unawares) 
introducing  therein  certain  reconstructive  and  re- 
frigerating ingredients  in  the  way  of  mineral  salts  and 
vegetable  acids,  derived  chiefly  from  fresh  fruits  and 
green  vegetables ;  in  a  word,  if  you  can  make  yourself 
understand  that  if  it  weren't  for  the  fact  that  instinct 
and  environment  compel  you  to  check  the  progress  of 
your  internal  mouldering  and  heat-producing,  and  that 
your  body  is  provided  with  outlets  and  valves — you'd 
soon  crumble  to  ashes,  or  explode,  or  belch  forth  like  a 
miniature  volcano.  Indeed,  most  people  have  had  spells 
of  "erupting"  like  volcanoes  (fever,  headache,  delirium, 
etc.),  or  belching  forth  lava  (slime,  catarrh,  corrup- 
tion, etc.).  And  why?  Simply  because  of  their  stocking 
up  too  much  with  glycogen  and  sugar  and  slime-pro- 
ducing foods.  Not  actually  because  they  ate  too 
much  all  told — but  because  they  used  no  knowledge, 
no  judgment,  no  sense  in  the  proportion  of  the  three 
common  classes  of  foods — namely  (i)  in  the  material 
which  repairs  or  renews  the  tissues;  (2)  in  the  mate- 
rial which  keeps  up  the  normal  "simmering"  heat  or 
force  of  the  body;  (3)  in  the  material  which  absorbs, 
regulates,  checks  and  disposes  of  the  steam  or  heat  or 
ashes  or  clinkers  or  waste  produced  in  their  body  fur- 
naces and  boilers. 

Material  No.  I  is  mainly  found  in  eggs,  meats,  fish 
and  milk. 

Material  No.  II  is  mainly  found  in  air,  bread,  pota- 
toes, rice,  corn,  cereal  foods  of  all  kinds,  sweets  and 
pastries* 

Material  No.  Ill  is  mainly  found  in  water,  green 
vegetables  and  fruits. 


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But — and  here  is  where  cooks  and  commerce  and 
civilization  are  off — refrigerating  material  No.  Ill,  the 
preventive,  antidote,  regulator,  cooler  and  electric  ma- 
terial of  the  human  body — is  usually  rendered  inert  or 
detrimental  by  being  mixed  or  modified  in  unnatural 
ways  and  shapes  and  dishes.  Thus  the  essential  proper- 
ties or  ingredients  of  green  vegetables  and  fruits  are 
transformed  into  used-up  waste,  possessing  either 
negative  or  detrimental  properties  when  taken  into  the 
stomach  with  other  foods. 

I  mean  sim.ply  this — that  the  process  of  canning  and 
preserving  or  of  gravying  and  saucing  frequently  re- 
moves the  most  vitally  essential  acids  and  salts  con- 
tained in  the  vegetables  and  fruits,  and  usually  changes 
them  into  inert,  and  often  into  injurious  compounds — 
which  only  serve  to  clog  or  brittle  up  your  tissues  and 
blood  vessels,  thus  impairing  the  functions  of  your 
digestion,  assimilation  and  elimination.  Shouldn't 
fruits  ever  be  cooked  or  preserved  or  canned,  etc.? 
They  shouldn't.  If  you  or  some  one  else  can  extract 
and  preserve  their  juices  in  a  pure,  natural  state — all 
right.  Make  use  of  these  juices  instead  of  your  "tooth- 
somes"  which  invariably  prove  to  be  "unwholesomes." 
Shouldn't  vegetables  ever  be  cooked  or  preserved  or 
canned,  etc.?  Sometimes,  and  some  of  them — as  you 
will  learn  in  this  book. 

If  you  grasp  the  idea  that  stomach  juice  or 
stomach  slime  is  the  all-essential  healthy  stuff 
for  your  stomach  and  entire  body,  but  that  it  has 
absolutely  no  business  to  trespass  or  to  contaminate; 
and  if  you  grasp  the  idea  that  this  is  true  of  the  juices 
or  slimes  of  any  or  of  all  the  other  organs  and  tissues — 


68  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

you  can  dig  deeper  into  this  subject  yourself.  Which 
is  really  a  simple  one  of  food-mixing  under  given  con- 
ditions of  air  and  water  and  work  and  fun  and  sleep. 
That's  all.  If  you  are  at  all  versed  in  photography,  or 
in  cooking,  I  can  give  you  a  good  hold  on  the  thread — 
and  all  you've  got  to  do  is  to  pull  to  get  at  the  spool  of 
my  idea.  Your  "developers"  are  the  digestive  juices  or 
"ferment"  containing  slimes  of  your  organs ;  the  coat- 
ing on  your  "plate"  is  the  fleshy  jelly  of  your  tissues, 
containing  chemicals  that  possess  the  property  of  act- 
ing and  reacting  with  the  chemicals  found  in  your 
juices  or  slimes.  You  know  how  accurate  you  must  be 
in  mixing  the  ingredients  of  your  "developers" 
together.  And  you  know  that  accuracy,  though  so  very 
important,  is  nothing  compared  to  the  care  which  must 
be  exercised  in  not  mixing  or  tainting  the  "develop- 
ing" or  "toning"  or  "fixing"  solutions  v/ith  even  a  trace 
of  another.  Each  and  all  are  all  right  where  they  be- 
long and  when  they  are  wanted,  but  not  otherwise.  Ex- 
cept this — that  there  is  a  way  of  combining  some  of 
them  together  to  advantage.  But  the  greatest  of  care 
must  be  exercised  in  compounding  and  associating  the 
ingredients  in  given  proportions ;  for  even  the  slightest 
excess  of  "bromide,"  for  instance,  will  "sicken"  the 
plate  or  picture.  So,  likewise,  in  baking,  if  you  add  too 
much  yeast  or  soda  or  butter,  etc.,  etc.  Well,  the  very 
same  holds  good  in  the  human  body. 

The  juices  or  slimes  of  joints  and  brain  as  well  as  of 
mouth  and  stomach,  are  "developing"  and  "toning"  and 
"fixing"  solutions.  The  living  substance  proper  called 
protoplasm,  is  the  coating  pasted  on  the  inside  and  out- 
side walls  of  your  cells  and  their  granulated  sand.   I£ 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  69 

you  mix  too  much  starchy  foods  (bread,  cereals,  pota- 
toes, etc.)  with  albumen  foods  (milk,  eggs,  meats,  fish, 
etc.),  and  do  not  increase  proportionately  the  amount 
of  air,  water  and  vegetable  acids  and  mineral  salts  to 
your  mixture  or  solution;  you're  bound  to  spoil  your 
inside  and  outside  "plates"  or  "negatives"  and  the 
"picture"  of  your  health,  here  or  there,  is  bound  to 
turn  out  bad.  You  can  have  it  "retouched,"  of  course — 

Though  it's  not  my  intention  to  make  of  Autology 
a  Science  or  Practice  that  shall  make  you  ashamed  of 
yourself,  it  is  my  fixed  determination  to  make  of  it  a 
Doctrine  whose  motto  is:  Look  your  mistakes  square 
in  the  face,  rip  them  to  pieces  your  own  self;  then 
reuse  and  reset  the  pieces  to  match  and  fit  your  own 
organs  and  tissues,  your  own  health  and  work  and  age 
and  fun  and  surroundings.  If  you  do  that  you  will  find 
that  the  texture  and  feeling  and  looks  and  utility  of 
your  organs  and  functions  are  as  "fine,"  after  they  have 
gone  through  the  process  of  Autopathic  treatment  as 
your  sick  or  soiled  silks  or  laces  or  "fineries"  are  after 
they  have  gone  through  the  process  of  "dry"  or 
"moist"  cleaning  treatment. 

"How  am  I  to  know  hov/  to  mix  my  air  and  water 
and  foods  so  as  to  remain  perfectly  well  after  going 
through  the  process  of  Autopathic  treatment?"  you  are 
anxious  to  ask  me.  That  is  a  question  which  you  will 
find  answered  clearly  in  the  rest  of  this  book.  So 
clearly  that  the  dullest  mind  can  find  no  excuse  for  not 
understanding  and  utilizing  it  under  any  and  all  condi- 
tions. But  don't  skip  a  single  line  of  the  preceding 
and  intervening  pages  in  your  longing  for  the  priceless 
information.  Get  to  it  as  you  got  to  your  age — ^word  by 


70  Autolog y — Study  Thyself 

word.  If  you  don't,  therell  be  "lapses"  or  "forgeti"  in 
your  understanding  of  Autopathy  (to  cure  thyself) 
which  may  lead  to  disappointment  or  failure,  or  that 
may  postpone  your  long  sought  for  recovery  or  enjoy- 
ment of  well-being,  well-feeling  and  well-thinking. 

To  understand  your  ailments  is  to  know  how  to  cure 
them. 

That's  to  know  how  to  avoid  them  also. 

Another  reason  why  I  dv/ell  somewhat  on  this  sub- 
ject of  "living  slimes"  is  because  the  civilized  custom 
of  making  and  partaking  of  soups  and  broths  is  un- 
healthy. Soups  are  mostly  "teas"  made  of  "dead"  ani- 
mal slimes,  seasoned  with  some  of  the  urinary  and  ex- 
crementitious  materials  which  are  "held  up"  at  the 
time  of  killing  the  animal — thus  preventing  the  said 
refuse  from  reaching  its  destination,  the  bladder  and 
intestines.  Hence  it  is  that,  in  spite  of  esthetic  scruples, 
I  have  made  you  acquainted  with  the  sundry  but  alike 
slimy  juices  and  products  which  attend  to  all  the 
wants  of  and  soak  and  make  up  animal  tissues.  After 
this,  you  should  not  wonder  so  much  at  the  nastiness 
of  certain  discharges  which  sickness  produces,  as  you 
should  that  "healthy"  slime  can  possibly  contain  the 
material  and  wherewith  that  enters  into  the  manufac- 
ture and  make-up  of  so  much  lovable  sweetness  and 
brilliant  intelligence  as  this  world  exhibits. 

There  isn't  an  "open  door"  or  inch  of  tubing  or  web 
of  tissue  in  the  body  which  does  not  manufacture  and 
depend  on  slime  for  its  sustenance  and  function.  You 
are  perhaps  familiar  only  v/ith  that  which  calls  for  a 
handkerchief  or  cuspidor.  However,  the  lungs  and  the 
eyelids  are  oiled  and  dependent  on  the  same  kind  of 


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slime  and  so  are  the  stomach,  bowels,  rectum,  bladder, 
womb,  etc.,  etc.,  and  brain  and  mind  and  procreation 
and  growth  and  development-and  genius  as  much  as 

idiocy. 

Think  it  over.  , 

Love  thy  neighbor  as   thyself,  more  or  less.    And 

Autopathy  shall  make  you  realize  that  your  own  world 

and  shoes  are  the  most  scrumptious  places  to  hve  m. 

after  all. 


THE  SAMENESS  AND  ONENESS  OF 
SYMPTOMS,  DISEASES,  PROD- 
UCTS AND  "DISCHARGES" 

That's  a  broad  statement— more  comprehensive  than 
has  ever  been  conceived  by  any  student  of  Livingness. 
Nevertheless,  we  can  together  prove  that  it  is  based 
on  Truth  and  Sense. 

Many  writers  have  before  made  the  assertion  that 
"there  is  only  one  disease"— or  "only  one  poison" — 
and  that  "the  only  one"  disease  or  poison  is  "impure 
blood" — and  that  the  cause  or  causes  of  this  "impure 
blood"  is  one  thing  or  another.  What  "thing"  or  what 
"other"?  Some  ascribe  the  cause  of  "the  one  disease" 
or  blood  poison  to  improper  "thinking" ;  some,  to  im- 
perfect "breathing";  some,  to  lack  of  "water  drink- 
ing" ;  some,  to  the  lack  of  "physical  exercise" ;  some, 
to  excesses  in  "eating,"  etc.,  etc. 

In  a  word,  one  and  all  see  a  speck  on  your  face  and, 
not  understanding  its  origin  and  character,  claim  that 
your  features  are  one  mass  of  smut.  Such  brain- 
vision  is  afflicted  with  a  form  of  myopia  or  short- 
sightedness— ^which,  when  it  attempts  to  focus  itself 
on  the  subject  of  "health"  and  "sickness,"  becomes 
cross-eyed.  Accordingly,  instead  of  giving  you  a 
name  or  a  definite  idea  of  what  that  one  blood-smut 
consists,  or  of  what's  at  the  bottom  of  the  "impure 

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blood,"  and  how  to  wipe  it  off  from  your  system,  as 
you  would  from  your  nose — they  tell  you  to  "think" 
it  away;  to  "breathe"  it  away;  to  "water"  it  away; 
to  "starve"  it  away;    to  "colon-flush"  it  away,  etc. 

That  kind  of  information  or  advice  is  on  a  par  with 
that  Vv/hich  one  youngster  gives  another  when  he  whis- 
pers: "Say,  kid,  run  home  and  tell  your  ma  she 
wants  you."  I  wonder  me  how  'tis  that  their  advice 
does  not  create  a  vacuum  first,  and  then  a  cussedness, 
in  people's  brains  as  does  the  youngster's  in  the  kid's! 

When  some  one  advises  you  to  breathe  deep  and 
tells  you  that  shallow  breathing  is  the  cause  of  your 
impure  blood,  ask  him  to  sit  down  with  you  and  show 
you  his  brain-full  of  pennies  and  let  you  count  them  in 
your  own  hands  and  ways.  Ask  him  to  name  that  one 
sole  blood-poison — ask  him  to  name  its  father  and 
mother  and  brothers  and  sisters  and  relatives,  in  a 
v/ord,  to  give  you  its  pedigree  and  history — -ask  him 
how  and  whom  and  where  it  mated  and  unmated— ask 
him  the  explanation,  the  arithmetic-like  explanation, 
of  the  effect  that  deep  breathing  is  going  to  have  on 
that  "one  sole  poison"  that  he  accuses  your  blood  of 
befriending;  or  how  shallow  breathing  manufactured 
that  one  sole  blood-counterfeit.  Do  they,  one  or  all, 
even  hint  that  the  "raw"  material  of  which  the  blood 
poison  is  composed  happens  to  be  made  from  some- 
thing that  you  know  or  can  be  made  to  understand  as 
well  as  anybody?    They  don't. 

Oh,  yes;  I  know  that  they  pipe  off  soap-bubbles 
about  the  oxygen  of  the  air  oxidizing  or  burning  up 
the  poison,  etc.,  which,  like  baby's  soap-bubbles,  seems 
beautiful,  indeed,  but— Evanescence  I  Can  two  soap- 
bubbles  occupy  the  one  and  same  spot  or  volume  or 


74  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— -Study  Thyself 

space,  in  air,  at  the  one  and  same  time?  Can  they? 
Well,  then,  can  one  oxygen-bubble  occupy  the  same 
spot  or  volume  in  the  tubes  of  your  blood  vessels, 
closed  at  both  ends  and  on  all  sides,  at  the  one  and 
same  time  that  the  said  spot  or  volume  is  filled  with 
a  carbonic  gas-bubble?  You,  or  some  one,  will  up  and 
say:  "The  oxygen  drives  it  out  or  burns  it  up."  In 
the  first  place,  carbonic  acid  gas  is  not  burnable  or 
oxidizable.  It's  already  burned  or  oxidized.  It's 
ashes  or  clinkers  in  your  blood-tubes  or  lung-furnace. 
In  the  second  place,  it's  not  drivable.  It  comes  out  of 
and  through  the  same  tube-opening  or  bellows  (throat 
or  lungs)  that  oxygen  goes  in.  You,  or  some  one,  will 
nov/  say:  "It's  an  exchange  of  the  two  gases  within 
the  air  spaces  or  alveolar  cells  of  the  lungs — ^the  oxygen 
displacing  the  carbonic  acid  gas ;  and,  having  replaced 
it,  is  taken  up  or  absorbed  by  the  blood  in  larger 
amount."  Let  us  see  if  this  is  correct.  Yes,  it's  an 
exchange  of  the  two  gases  in  the  lung  cells ;  but  lung 
cells  or  chambers  are  cut  off  on  all  sides  from  the 
blood  vessels  and  they  cannot  swap  more  carbonic  acid 
gas  for  oxygen  than  they  (the  lung  cells)  happen  to 
contain  at  the  time,  and  they  can't  be  the  possessors 
of  more  carbonic  acid  gas  than  the  blood  vessels  have 
"breathed  out"  into  them.  And  the  blood  vessels  are 
not  provided  with  a  billion  of  bellows  puffing  away  at 
your  beck  and  call  from  within  the  billions  of  the  cells 
and  nuclei  of  your  brain  and  liver  and  kidneys  and  toes, 
and  the  dickens  knows  what  not.  We're  piped  and 
jointed  all  right  enough,  but  every  pipe  ends  where 
it  begins  and  every  joint  is  "wiped,"  as  plumbers  say. 
The  only  "leaks"  ever  sprung  by  the  human  organism 
are  sprung  by  the  mind,  or  "corruption." 


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Going  deeper  into  our  subject,  let  me  refer  you  to 
what  I  say  on  "The  Twin-ness  of  Blood" — where  I 
show  you  that,  in  health  as  well  as  in  sickness,  the 
fundamental  or  "poisoning"  difference  between  good 
or  "pure,"  and  bad  or  impure  blood  is  virtually  and 
actually  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that  venous  or  impure 
blood  contains  more  carbonic  acid  gas  dissolved  in  its 
serum  and  combined  with  its  red  corpuscle  than  arte- 
rial or  pure  blood  contains.  Now,  carrying  this  a  lit- 
tle further,  you  can  readily  understand  how  easy  it  is 
for  the  arterial  or  pure  blood  to  become  infected  or 
made  impure  by  an  excess  of  carbonic  acid  gas — com- 
ing either  directly  through  the  capillaries  from  the 
"carbonized"  venous  blood  or  from  the  free  carbonic 
acid  gas  in  the  air  of  rooms,  or  from  excesses  in  what 
are  called  "carbohydrate"  foods,  which  are  "starchy" 
foods  that  happen  to  be  rich  in  carbon,  and  which, 
therefore,  liberate  a  large  amount  of  carbonic  acid  gas 
when  they  are  burned  up  in  the  system.  All  "cereal," 
or  "starchy,"  or  "sweet"  foods  are  converted  in  the 
liver  into  glycogen  (liver  sugar),  which  then  is  stored 
away  in  the  muscles,  where  it  is  converted  into  glu- 
cose, which  then  breaks  up  into  water  and  carbonic 
acid  gas,  which  gas  must  at  once  be  picked  up  or  dis- 
solved by  the  venous  blood  and  passed  over  to  the 
lungs,  and  to  the  kidneys,  and  to  all  the  manufactur- 
ing membranes  of  the  entire  body  from  head  to  foot. 
Mark  well  what  I  say,  "To  all  the  manufacturing  mem- 
branes of  the  entire  body."  Mark  this  well,  please — 
not  because  no  one  else  ever  recognized  or  discovered 
that  one  fact  in  studying  the  mechanism  of  the  living 
body  but  because  that  one  fact  shows  the  wonderful 
wisdom  and  economy  practiced  by  the  Maker  in  so 


76  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study  Thyself 

constructing  your  Living  Plant  that  the  waste  or  refuM 
products  (so-called  "poisons")  of  one  tissue  or  tissue- 
compound,  say  of  glycogen  or  muscle-sugar,  namely, 
carbonic  acid  gas  (itself  a  poison)  becomes  actually 
a  most  essential  and  indispensable  constituent  of  the 
special  by-products  turned  out  by  various  organs  or 
tissues  of  your  organism.  What  do  I  mean?  I  mean 
just  this:  That  that  which  is  burned  or  used  up  or 
oxidized  in  the  organs  or  tissues  of  your  body,  and 
which  all  past  and  present  writers  and  teachers  claim 
is  "waste"  or  "poison,"  is  not  poison,  but  is  actually 
an  essential  foodstuff  which  other  organs  or  tissues 
now  must  have  in  manufacturing  their  specialized 
products  or  juices.  How  can  I  prove  that?  I  can 
prove  that  by  analyzing  the  chemical  composition  of 
the  various  juices  of  the  body— those  produced  or  oozed 
out  by  the  brain  and  cord,  as  well  as  those  that  ooze 
out  of  the  mouth,  and  lungs,  and  stomach,  and  liver, 
and  pancreas,  and  intestines,  and  genito-urinary  or- 
gans, and  joints,  and  other  spaces,  or  canals,  or 
sheaths  existing  in  or  between  or  around  your  organs 
and  tissues. 

"Without  troubling  you  with  a  complicated  compara- 
tive table  of  the  amounts  of  carbonic  acid  gas  which 
enters  in  the  makeup  and  function  of  all  the  various 
essential  juices  and  fluids  of  the  body,  let  me  reproduce 
here  a  table  of  proportions  of  the  various  constituents 
of  the  saliva  (spit).  In  one  thousand  parts  (grammes) 
of  saliva  there  is  found  of : 

Phosphoric  acid 0.51  (about  8  grains) 

Sodium 0.43  (nearly  same) 

Calcium  (lime) 0.03  (just  a  bit) 


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Magnesium 0.0 1  (almost  none) 

Chlorides 0.84  (about  14  grains) 

Oxygen almost  none 

Nitrogen   almost  none 

Carbonic  acid  gas 200  (over  6  ounces) 

If  to  that  datum  you  add  this  other  that  the  salivary 
glands  manufacture  from  18  to  36  ounces  (from  over 
one  pint  to  over  one  quart)  of  saliva  in  every  twenty- 
four  hours,  you  will  begin  to  get  an  idea  regarding 
what  the  human  organism  does  with  its  so-called 
"poison"  or  waste.  As  you  see,  it  uses  that  waste  not 
as  a  "poison"  but  as  a  very  useful  product  and  derives 
as  much  good  from  it  as  "packers"  nowadays  derive 
from  what  was  formerly  considered  offensive  refuse. 
But,  even  as  "packers"  have  learned  that  the  refuse  or 
waste  must  be  "refined"  and  re-refined,  and  not  be 
improperly  assorted  or  combined,  and  as  they  have 
recognized  that  the  refuse  of  some  animals  or  organs 
is  not  productive  of  as  high  a  grade  of  by-products,  or 
fertilizers,  so  the  human  economy  cannot  turn  out 
high-grade  by-products  (digestive,  biliary,  urinary  and 
brainy)  from  a  low-grade  or  bad  mixture  of  the  body's 
so-called  "refuse,"  or  "waste,"  or  "poison."  Do  you 
now  see  why  every  learned,  as  well  as  every  unlearned 
individual  or  writer,  in  matters  of  living,  well  or  sick, 
is  talking  through  his  hat  or  groping  in  darkness?  If 
now  you  will  further  absorb  the  fact  that  the  amount  of 
free  and  combined  carbonic  acid  gas  that  enters  into 
the  formation  and  composition  of  gastric  and  pan- 
creatic and  intestinal  juices,  as  well  as  in  the  forma- 
tion and  composition  of  bile  and  urine  and  brain  and 
spinal  cord — as  well,  also,  as  in  the  formation  and  com- 


78  Autology— Study  Thyself 

position  of  the  serum  (and  red  corpuscles)  of  the  blood 
and  of  the  lymph — is  proportionately  about  as  large  as 
just  stated  regarding  the  saliva,  you  will  readily  admit 
that  "the  one  poison"  which  makes  "impure  blood"  is 
a  mighty  useful  and  essential  and  beneficial  poison. 
What  ails  it,  then,  that  it  causes  so  much  mischief? 
Nothing  ails  it — it  all  ails  you — simply  because  you 
breathe  and  drink  and  eat  and  do — and  don't  breathe 
and  drink  and  eat  and  do — things  (chemical  things) 
which  either  prevent  your  organs  or  tissues  from  ac- 
cepting or  utilizing  the  "grade"  of  the  carbonic  acid 
mixture  v/hich  the  blood  and  lymph  unload  in  your 
"retorts,"  or  which  render  them  (retorts  or  tissues) 
unable  to  "refine"  and  "re-refine"  the  mixture  or  mess 
into  a  sufficiently  high  grade  of  spit,  or  stomach  or 
pancreatic  or  bile  or  brain  or  urine  by-product.  That's 
all.  Nothing  goes  to  waste  or  to  poison,  but  all  goes  to 
money,  in  the  "stock  yards"  of  Chicago;  but  a  large 
bulk  of  everything- — mental  and  physical — goes  to 
waste  or  poison— or  penury — in  the  "stock  yards"  of 
the  "thinking,"  "breathing,"  "watering,"  "feeding," 
"flushing"  "packers"  (I  mean  everybody). 

Did  you  know  that  your  body  manufactures  every 
twenty-four  hours  about  one-tenth  your  weight  of  gas- 
tric juice?  Fancy  now  what  a  muddle  your  body  must 
be  in  when  that  gastric  juice  is  of  a  low  grade  and 
can't  be  pawned  off  for  standard!  And  that  your 
pancreas  produces  from  one-fourth  to  one-half  of  one 
pint  of  pancreatic  juice,  and  your  liver  from  one  pint 
to  one  quart  of  bile,  and  your  intestines  from  one- 
eighth  to  one-fourth  pint  of  their  juice,  and  the  kid- 
neys about  three  pints  of  urine  ?    And  that  is  far  from 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  79 

comprising  all  the  juices  which  remain  in  and  around 
all  your  tissues  and  organs  and  glands. 

The  foregoing  data  are  sufficient,  I  believe,  to  con- 
vince you  that  your  usual  sources  of  information  re- 
garding health  and  disease  are  rather  primitive,  not  to 
say  murky,  and  that  he  who  writes  and  asserts  that 
there  is  only  one  disease  and  only  one  poison,  and 
who  quits  you  there  to  ramble  away  or  evaporate  into 
words  and  "spread-eagles,"  is  befuddling  himself  or 
parrotting  some  one  else.  And,  I  believe,  they  are  suf- 
ficient to  convince  you  that  I  am  right  in  claiming  that 
"what's  burned  or  used  up  or  oxidized  in  the  organs  or 
tissues  of  the  body,  and  which  all  past  and  present 
writers  and  teachers  claim  is  waste  or  poison,  is  not 
poison,  but  is  actually  an  essential  nutriment  which 
other  organs  and  tissues  utilize  to  manufacture  their 
special  by-products  or  juices." 

Yet,  I  haven't  mentioned  the  lubricating  sub- 
stances of  the  body — namely,  the  "mucus"  or 
slime — which  is  produced  by  all  your  mucous 
membrane-lined  organs  and  tissues,  and  the 
"serum"  or  "lymph"  which  is  produced  by  all  your 
serous  membrane-lined  organs  and  tissues.  In  fact, 
all  the  organs  and  tissues  of  your  body  are  lined  either 
inside  or  outside  with  the  one  or  the  other  of  those 
membranes.  Indeed,  we  have  no  way  of  knowing 
what  is  transpiring  beneath  or  behind  or  under  either 
one  of  those  two  membranes  except  by  examining  what 
it  pleases  them  to  squeeze  or  let  ooze  out  through 
their  meshes  and  filtering  cell-walls.  But  we  know 
this  much,  that  what  is  artificially  compressed  through 
the  mucous  membrane  of  a  tonsil,  or  stomach,  or  blad- 


8o  Auto  logy— Study   Thyself 

der,  or  womb,  etc.,  or  through  the  serous  membrane  of 
a  brain,  or  lung  (pleura),  or  joint — or  the  skin  itself — 
is  not  a  particle  the  same  "stuff"  or  juice  which  Na- 
ture, in  her  mysterious  way,  turns  out  or  oozes  out  as 
her  by-products.  That's  why  we  are  safe  in  assuming 
that  the  "refining"  processes  take  place  within  the  cells 
of  the  mucous  and  serous  membranes  of  the  body, 
and  that's  why  I  am  safe  in  concluding  that  the  source 
of  the  so-called  "poison"  which  causes  all  symptoms 
or  diseases  is  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that  the  refining 
cells  of  these  membranes  are  the  seat  or  plant  where 
the  whole  secret  of  the  production  of  high-grade  or 
low-grade  by-products  is  kept  and  operated.  These 
two  membranes  assort  and  refine  the  material  offered 
them  by  the  organ-cells  proper  and  then  turn  out  the 
various  grades  of  their  respective  by-products  through 
their  meshes  and  walls  and  reject  the  unusable,  which 
then  must  accumulate  in  the  tissues  to  be  burned  up 
in  "fevers"  or  be  disposed  of  as  "discharges,"  or  "ef- 
fusions," or  "exudates,"  or  "dropsy,"  or  "catarrh,"  etc. 
You  may  not  have  a  very  clear  conception  of  what  is 
a  mucous  membrane  and  a  serous  membrane.  A 
mucous  membrane  is  the  kind  of  skin  which  lines  the 
inside  of  your  eyelids,  nose,  mouth,  throat,  air  tubes, 
stomach,  bowels,  appendix,  genito-urinary  organs,  etc., 
and  which  produces  or  manufactures,  in  health,  what 
is  called  mucus  (besides  the  special  by-products  be- 
fore mentioned),  and  in  disease  what  is  called  "slime," 
or  "catarrhal"  discharge,  and  sometimes  a  mixture  of 
slime  and  pus  (matter  or  corruption).  A  serous  mem- 
brane is  the  kind  of  skin  which  lines  the  outside  of  the 
lungs  and  the  inside  of  the  chest  walls  (called 
pleura),    and     the     brain     (called     dura     and     pia 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  8i 

mater,  meaning  hard  or  tough  and  soft  or 
delicate  mother-skin),  and  the  nerves  (called 
neurilemma),  and  the  ends  of  bones  where  joints 
are  formed,  and  the  spaces  between  the  abdom- 
inal and  pelvic  fleshy  walls,  and  the  numerous  vital 
and  pelvic  organs  therein  placed,  etc.  This  serous- 
make  of  membrane  manufactures  or  exudes,  in  health, 
a  thinnish,  straw-colored  lubricant,  which  enables  any 
two  organs  or  tissues  to  come  in  contact  and  rub  to- 
gether without  your  feeling  it ;  whereas,  in  sickness,  it 
becomes  "effusion,"  or  "exudate,"  or  "water,"  and  ac- 
cumulates, as  you  know,  in  articular  rheumatism  and 
pleurisy,  for  instance.  So,  also,  in  brain  fever  or  men- 
ingitis. And  it  also  may  become  purulent  (corrup- 
tion), as  in  empyem.a  (matter  or  pus  in  the  chest). 

I  believe  that  you  are  now  prepared  to  follow  me 
understandingly  in  the  further  observations  and  de- 
ductions I  wish  to  make. 


SECRETIONS,   EFFUSIONS  AND  "DIS- 
CHARGES." 

You  understand  that  all  "symptoms" — such  as 
fever,  pain,  redness,  swelling,  etc. — are  phenomena 
manifested  by  each  and  every  organ  or  tissue  in  condi- 
tions of  impairment  and  disease;  and  that  there  is  no 
real  difference  between  the  "sickly"  symptoms  and 
the  "healthy"  signs  manifested  by  organs  or  tissues  in 
sickness  and  in  health,  aside  from  a  mere  difference  in 
the  degree  of  the  heat  (fever),  or  sensation  (pain),  or 
color  (redness),  or  size  (swelling). 


82  Auto  logy— Study  Thyself 

If  now  you  wttl  investigate  the  produda  Of  fey- 
products  of  the  organs  and  tissues  of  your  body,  in 
health  and  in  sickness,  you  will  readily  recognize  that 
there  is  no  real,  distinctive  difference  between  any 
given  "healthy"  product  and  its  corresponding  "sickly" 
product,  aside  from  the  difference  in  the  quality  (or 
adulteration)  of  the  two^ — I  mean  the  "healthy"  and  the 
"sickly."  For  instance,  the  so-called  pale,  watery 
blood  of  anemia  is  just  as  much  blood  as  the  red, 
plastic  blood  of  plethora,  except  in  the  proportion  of 
the  white  and  red  corpuscles  and  the  richness  of  the 
serum.  So  with  the  saliva,  gastric  and  intestinal 
juices,  cerebro-spinal  fluids,  genito-urinary  secretions 
or  excretions  of  these  two  individuals.  It's  only  a  dif- 
ference in  the  "grade" — not  in  the  "stuff"  itself.  The 
"mucous"  secretion  of  the  mucous  membranes  any- 
where in  the  bodies  of  these  two  individuals—one 
"healthy"  and  the  other  "sickly" — is  exactly  the  same 
slime  and  lubricant ;  only  this :  that  the  sickly  kind  is 
more  diluted  or  less  oily,  or  more  "ropy"  and  less 
watery  than  the  healthy  kind.    That's  all. 

Were  it  not  of  such  importance  to  your  future  states 
of  health  I  would  not  ask  you  to  follow  me  in  the  fur- 
ther investigation  of  the  origin  and  character  of  your 
juices  and  their  derivatives  or  by-products  in  health 
and  in  sickness.  But  as  it  is  absolutely  necessary  for 
you  to  become  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  under- 
lying principles  of  Autology  and  with  the  most  im- 
portant facts  on  which  it  rests,  in  order  that  you  may 
utilize  this  common  sense  system  of  cure  to  advantage 
for  yourself  and  others,  as  well  as  to  be  able  to  combat 
the  delusive  arguments  of  others,  or  to  impart  th» 


Autopath y»-— Cure  Thygelf  S3 

knowledge  which  you  ehall  own  as  yours  if  you  rea(i 
re-read  and  study  this  booli;,  I  desire  to  set  before  your 
mind  two  masses  of  "stuff."  One  is  a  mass  of  coal  tar. 
The  other  is  a  mass  of  blood  clot.  The  two  are  not 
very  much  unlike — I  mean  in  the  analogy  of  the  pur- 
poses which  they  serve  respectively  and  in  the  by- 
products or  derivatives  which  are  obtained  by  "treat- 
ing" them. 

Coal  tar  is  a  product,  as  you  know,  obtained  by  man 
in  the  manufacture  of  illuminating  gas  from  bitumi- 
nous coal ;  whereas  blood  is  a  product  obtained  by  Na- 
ture in  the  manufacture  of  carbonic  acid  gas  from  nu- 
tritious food.  The  processes  or  steps  through  which 
coal  tar  is  put  in  the  retorts  and  tubes  or  "condensers" 
and  distillers  of  the  commercial  plant,  in  order  to  ob- 
tain therefrom  the  wonderful  stores  of  endless  gaseous, 
liquid  and  solid  compounds  and  products,  are  no  less 
numerous  or  wonderful  than  are  the  processes  or  steps 
through  which  blood  is  put  in  the  retorts  and  tubes  or 
"condensers"  and  distillers  of  your  vital  plant,  in  order 
to  obtain  therefrom  the  wonderful  stores  of  endless 
gaseous,  liquid  and  solid  tissue  compounds  and  prod- 
ucts. 

The  blood  is  an  extremely  complex  mixture,  but  no 
more  complex  than  coal  tar ;  and  the  human  laboratory 
does  not  extract  or  compound  or  refine  more  deriva- 
tives or  by-products  from  blood  than  man-made  ap- 
paratus or  laboratories  do  from  coal  tar.  Indeed,  the 
number  of  substances  or  derivatives  obtained  from  the 
coal  tar  business  is  far  in  excess  of  those  manufactured 
by  the  human  apparatus.  Nevertheless,  do  you  know 
that  the  thousands  of  products  and  by-products  which 
are  directly  derived  from  or  related  to  coal  tar  are  made 


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or  found  to  fit  into  practically  one  class  of  substances, 
namely,  the  Benzene  Series? 

Do  you  realize  that  carbolic  acid  and  aniline  are 
products  of  coal  tar  as  well  as  benzene  and  naphtha- 
lene? Is  it  more  surprising  to  hear  or  find  that 
"mucus"  and  "urine"  and  "bile"  and  digestive  juices 
and  brain  fluids  belong  to  the  one  and  same  class  of 
blood  derivatives  than  it  is  that  coal  produces  illumi- 
nating gas,  coal  tar,  benzene,  carbolic  acid  and  aniline, 
and  a  thousand  and  one  seemingly  most  dissimilar  sub- 
stances? 

Let  us  now  turn  to  all  your  organs  and  tissues.  They 
are  all  classifiable  under  two  headings,  namely : 

Class  I.  Those  organs  and  tissues  that  serve  the 
double  purpose  of  inlets  and  outlets  and  that  are  in  di- 
rect or  indirect  communication  with  the  outer  world. 
Among  these  are  the  eyes  and  ears;  the  mouth  and 
throat;  the  nose  and  air  tubes,  including  the  lungs; 
the  entire  alimentary  canal,  from  the  stomach  (or 
esophagus,  gullet)  to  the  anus  (end  of  rectum) ;  the 
genital  organs  proper  of  both  sexes,  including  the 
Fallopian  tubes  and  uterus  and  external  genitals  of 
the  female  and  the  prostate  and  external  genitals  of 
the  male;  the  urinary  organs  or  tissues  of  both  sexes, 
including  the  pelvis  or  reservoir  of  the  kidneys,  and 
the  bladder,  and  the  appendix;  the  liver,  the  pancreas, 
the  kidney  tissue  proper,  the  ovaries,  the  testes,  and 
the  skin. 

Class  2.  Those  organs  and  tissues  that  have  neither 
inlet  nor  outlet  in  direct  or  indirect  communication 
with  the  outer  world.  Among  these  are  brain  and 
spinal  cord,  bones  and  marrow,  heart,  spleen,   lym- 


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phatlc  glands,  blood  vessels,  nerves,  muscles,  fat,  blood 
corpuscles,  and  the  cavities  or  spaces  of  the  joints, 
skull,  spine,  pleura  (chest),  peritoneum  (abdomen), 
periosteum  (bone  membrane),  pericardium  (heart), 
and  the  enveloping  sheaths  of  nerves,  muscles  and 
tendons. 

The  above  two  classes  comprise  all  the  organs  and 
tissues  of  your  body.  And,  when  further  considered 
from  the  viewpoint  of  their  by-products  or  derivatives 
in  health  and  in  sickness,  or  from  that  of  the  origin  and 
location  of  their  diseases,  they  may  be  classified  into 
mucous  membrane-lined  and  serous  membrane-lined 
organs  and  tissues,  or  cavities  and  spaces.  This  simple 
"dual"  classification  is  perfectly  logical  and  scientific, 
because  diseases  or  ailments  invariably  start  in  or 
first  affect  their  inner  or  outer  linings  or  sacs — sheets 
or  pillow  cases.  The  substance  proper  of  organs  or 
tissues  becomes  involved  or  affected  only  by  extension, 
as  fire  extends  or  liquids  soak — by  which  I  m.ean  that 
"colds,"  "catarrhs,"  "rheumatisms,"  "fevers,"  "infec- 
tions," "biliousness,"  etc.,  begin  or  reside  either  in  the 
mucous  lining  of  the  organ-cavities,  as  nose,  throat, 
lungs,  stomach,  bowels,  bladder,  pelvic  organs,  etc.,  or 
in  their  serous  lining,  as  in  the  membranes  of  the  brain 
(meningitis,  or  brain  fever),  or  of  the  abdomen  (peri- 
tonitis, or  inflammation  of  the  bowels),  or  of  the  joints 
(arthritis,  or  articular  rheumatism),  or  of  the  bones 
(periostitis),  or  of  the  pelvic  organs  (cellulitis, 
ovaritis,  cystitis,  prostatitis,  etc.),  etc. 

Looking  at  things  more  closely  you  will  find  that 
Class  I  belongs  properly  to  the  mucous  mem- 
brane set  of  organs  and  tissues.  Hence,  they  are 
directly    or    indirectly   subjected   to   or   affected   by 


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aatarrhal  inflammations  or  discharges — infiammatlona 
or  discharges  that  may  be  only  mucous  or  slimy,  or 
also    purulent    (namely,    muco-purulent) .     Chemical 
analysis  shows  conclusively  that  the  mucous  discharge 
or  effusion  from  the  "healthy"  and  the    muco-puru- 
lent discharge  from  the  "sickly"  mucous  membrane 
of  the  eyes  and   ears,   the  respiratory   and   aliment- 
ary tracts,  the  urinary  and   genital   tracts — ^in  both 
sexes — are  not  only  alike,  respectively,  whether  well 
or  sick,  but  also  alike  no  matter  by  what  organ  or  tissue 
the  discharge  is  produced    or    oozes    from — ^however 
apart  or  different  the  organs  may  be.    For  example, 
the  catarrhal  or  muco-purulent  discharges  from  the 
eyelids,  the  lungs,  the  womb,  the  bladder,  the  stomach, 
the  bowels,  the  pelvis  of  the  kidney,  the  appendix  of 
the  cecum,  the  urethra,  etc.,  are  essentially  alike — not 
alone  in  their  appearance,  etc.,  but  also  in  their  phy- 
sical or  chemical  makeup.     Hence,  they  must  be  the 
one  and  same  product,  and  they  must  have  been  manu- 
factured by  the  various  tissue-cells  out  of  the  same, 
identical,  fundamental  blood  or  tissue  compound  or 
"live"  coal  tar.    What  is  the  difference  whether  the 
"discharge"  comes  from  the  lungs,  or  the  womb,  or 
the  prostate,  or  the  stomach,  etc.,  so  long  as  the  com- 
position of  the  discharge  is  one  and  the  same,  and  so 
long  as  directly  or  indirectly  the  source  of  that  dis- 
charge is  the  blood  "tar"?     None  whatever.    Which 
proves  that  my  contention—namely,  that  as  the  con- 
stituent-origin (the  chemical  bodies  circulating  in  the 
blood  and  permeating  that  class  of  organs  or  tissues) 
is  one  and  the  same,  and  as  the  constituent-products 
(the  catarrhal  or  muco-purulent  discharges)  are  one 


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and  alike,  throughout  all  the  organs  and  tissues  which 
belong  to  Class  i  (namely,  the  organs  and  tis- 
sues which  communicate  directly  or  indirectly  with 
the  outer  world  through  channels  or  hollow  organs 
that  are  lined  with  mucous  membranes) — is  not  only 
well  founded  but  also  the  only  logically  tenable  one. 
Which  furthermore  proves  that  any  and  all  diseases 
of  those  organs  and  tissues,  or  channels,  or  passages, 
must  be  treated  or  cured  in  exactly  the  one  and  same 
way.  Hence,  you  must  grant  that,  thus  far  at  least, 
I  am  on  sane  terra  firma  in  claiming  and  insisting 
that  Autopathy  is  the  one  treatment  for  the  hundreds 
of  this  class  of  so-called  different  ailments  or  diseases 
— whether  acute  or  chronic,  infectious  or  contagious — 
that  affect  the  various  mucous  membrane-lined  organs 
or  tissues  or  conduits.  To  be  reasonable  or  logical  you 
cannot  concede  to  me  an  iota  less  than  all  and  every- 
thing I  claim — if  you  concede  one  single  item  of  my 
broad  claim. 

Let  us  nov/  pass  to  Class  2,  which  consists  of  organs 
or  tissues  that  are  either  inclosed  with  serous  mem- 
branes or  that  (themselves)  inclose  spaces  or  cavities 
filled  more  or  less  with  serum  or  lymph.  Among  these 
are  the  brain  and  spinal  cord  and  nerves,  the  joints, 
the  pleural  cavity,  the  lymphatic  spaces  and  vessels, 
the  peritoneal,  including  the  abdominal  and  pelvic  or- 
gans of  male  and  female  (lined  outside  by  peritoneum), 
the  bones,  lined  outside  by  periosteum,  etc. 

I  do  not  think  it  necessary  to  devote  many  words 
to  prove  that  the  "healthy"  and  the  "sickly"  products 
of  the  enveloping  membranes  of  the  brain,  of  the  spinal 
cord,  of  the  nerves,  of  the  bones,  of  the  ovaries,  of  the 


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testes,  of  the  peritoneum,  of  the  pleural  cavity,  of  the 
lymphatic  spaces,  and  of  the  joints  are  alike  and  the 
same;  namely,  serous  or  sero-purulent ;  or  that  the 
serous  or  the  sero-purulent  discharge  oozing  from  the 
brain  membranes  is  chemically  the  same  as  that  oozing 
from  the  joints,  or  pleural  cavity,  or  ovary,  or  testes; 
or  that  a  serous  effusion  in  the  brain  or  spinal  cord,  or 
in  joints,  or  in  dropsy,  or  in  the  scrotum,  or  in  the 
chest,  or  in  edema  (anywhere)  is  physically  and  chem- 
ically alike,  and  that  it  and  all  originates  directly  or 
indirectly  from  the  same  constituents  of  blood  tar. 
Therefore,  I  must  again  ask  you,  "What  is  the  differ- 
ence whether  the  effusion  (called  effusion  because  the 
discharge  remains  closed  in  a  sac)  comes  from  the 
brain  or  nerves,  from  the  ovaries  or  testes,  from  the 
bones  or  chest,  from  the  joints  or  lymphatics,  so  long 
as  the  composition  of  the  discharge  (effusion)  is  one 
and  the  same,  and  so  long  as  the  source  is  directly  or 
indirectly  the  blood  tar?  None  whatever.  Which 
proves  that  my  contention- — namely,  that  as  the  con- 
stituent-origin (the  chemical  bodies  circulating  in  the 
blood  and  permeating  that  class  of  organs)  is  one  and 
the  same,  and  as  the  constituent-products  (the  serous 
or  sero-purulent  effusions)  are  one  and  alike,  through- 
out all  the  organs  and  tissues  which  belong  to  Class 
2  (namely,  the  organs  and  tissues  which  do  not  com- 
municate directly  or  indirectly  with  the  outer  world 
through  channels  or  hollow  organs,  but  which  are  lined 
outside  or  inside  by  serous  membranes) — is  not  only 
well  founded  but  also  the  only  logically  tenable  one. 
Which  furthermore  proves  that  any  and  all  diseases  of 
those  organs  and  tissues,  or  channels,  must  be  treated 
or  cured  in  exactly  the  one  and  same  way.    Hence,  you 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  89 

must  grant  that,  thus  far  at  least,  I  am  on  ssne  terra 
firma  in  claiming  and  insisting  that  Autopathy  is  the 
one  treatment  for  the  hundreds  of  this  class  of  so-called 
different  ailments  or  diseases — whether  acute  or 
chronic,  infectious  or  contagious — that  affect  the 
various  serous  membrane-lined  organs  or  tissues  or 
conduits.  To  be  reasonable  or  logical  you  cannot  con- 
cede to  me  an  iota  less  than  all  and  everything  I  claim 
— if  you  concede  one  single  item  of  my  broad  (ening) 
claim."  Broadening,  indeed,  as  you  are  about  to  wit- 
ness. 

You  have  noticed  that  I  have  so  far  avoided  refer- 
ences— that  is,  I  have  not  quoted  world-known  author- 
ities for  the  data  which  I  state.  There  are  two  rea- 
sons for  this.  In  the  first  place,  because  the  facts 
which  I  state  and  upon  which  I  base  my  deductions 
and  conclusions  are  known  to  every  learned  student  of 
medicine,  or  biology,  or  physiology.  In  the  second 
place,  because  the  deductions  and  conclusions,  as  well 
as  the  bedside  or  practical  observations  and  experi- 
ences which  confirm  my  deductions  and  conclusions, 
are  as  nev^  to  "authorities"  the  world  over  as  they  are 
to  you,  whoever  you  may  be.  Therefore,  I  can  quote 
no  one  in  that  regard  but  my  own  knowledge  obtained 
from  my  own  study  and  experience  and  experiments. 
But  I  am  now  coming  to  a  phase  of  the  subject  of 
Autology  where  I  appreciate  the  opportunity  of  be- 
ing able  to  quote  eminent  chemists  or  biologists,  be- 
cause most  physicians  or  students  are  not  versed  in 
the  observations  which  form  the  basis  of  and  absolute- 
ly confirm  the  truth  which  I  am  about  to  put  forth— 
namely,  that  there  is  virtually  and  actually  no  intrinsic 


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physical  or  chemical  difference  between  the  "healthy" 
or  "sickly"  mucous-membrane  products  of  diseases 
and  the  "healthy"  or  "sickly"  serous-membrane  prod- 
ucts of  diseases  of  any  class  or  classes  of  organs  or 
tissues  or  channels  in  the  entire  organism;  and  that, 
therefore,  there  is  no  real  difference  between  the  con- 
stituent-origin and  the  constituent-products  of  any  and 
all  ailments  or  diseases— be  these  acute  or  chronic,  in- 
fectious or  contagious. 

Before  proceeding  I  wish  you  to  bear  in  mind  that, 
though  there  are  any  number  of  makes  or  brands  of 
syrups,  or  of  whiskies,  on  the  market,  the  syrups  are 
all  composed  of  water  and  sugar,  and  the  whiskies  of 
water  and  alcohol.  In  other  words,  all  syrups  are  es- 
sentially alike  in  their  constituents  or  composition,  and 
differ  merely  in  the  quality  and  proportion  of  the  water 
and  sugar;  and  are,  therefore,  all  called  and  known  as 
syrups;  and  they  are  all  used  and  treated  as  syrups; 
and  they  are  all  subject  to  the  one  and  same  disease; 
and  the  one  and  same  treatment  will  cure  their  ail- 
ment or  ailments.  So  also  with  whiskies  or  liquors. 
The  actual  differences  between  the  various  brands  are 
merely  incidental  differences  of  color,  or  density,  or 
taste,  or  "age,"  and  not  of  essential  constituents.  Please 
bear  this  in  mind  as  you  read  what  follows  regarding 
serous  effusions  or  sero-purulent  effusions,  and  mucous 
secretions  or  muco-purulent  discharges  anywhere  in 
or  from  any  organ,  or  tissue,  or  cavity,  or  channel  that 
communicates,  or  that  does  not  communicate,  directly 
or  indirectly,  with  the  outer  world. 

My  references  are  Herter  (in  the  United  States), 
Hoppe-Seyler,  Bunge,  Hammersten  (in  German  lan- 
guage), A.  Gautier,  Bouchard,  Charrin  (in  French  Ian- 


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guage).  I  can  add  hundreds  of  names  to  this  list  in 
each  country  and  other  lands, 

"Backed"  in  my  statements  by  the  "findings"  of 
world-renown  authorities  in  the  field  of  biology  (Liv- 
ingness),  I  am  able  to  assert  that  tlie  healthy  and  the 
sickly  serous  effusions — such  as  are  found,  for  instance, 
in  the  pleural  cavity  (or  in  pleurisy),  in  the  peritoneal 
cavity  (or  dropsy  or  ascites),  in  the  skin  (or  edema), 
in  the  pericardium  (or  pericarditis),  in  the  tunica 
vaginalis  (or  hydrocele),  in  the  ventricles  of  the  brain 
or  between  the  membranes  of  the  brain  or  the  spinal 
cord  (or  meningitis,  or  cerebro-spinal  meningitis),  or 
in  ovarian  cysts,  or  in  blisters,  or  in  synovial  mem- 
branes (or  synovitis  or  rheumatic  effusion),  etc.,  etc. — 
possess  the  same  physical  and  chemical  properties  and 
composition.  Indeed,  much  more  so  than  do  the  vari- 
ous and  sundry  brands  of  syrups  or  liquors  or  beers. 
Here  is  what  these  serous  products  are  found  to  con- 
sist of  in  diseases  as  well  as  in  health,  namely:  Urea, 
creatine,  uric  acid,  tyrosine,  leucine,  some  fatty  mat- 
ters and  cholesterine,  and  exactly  the  same  kind  of 
mineral  salts  as  are  contained  in  the  blood-serum,  be- 
ing chiefly  those  of  sodium  and  potassium — ^with  a 
large  quantity  of  carbonic  acid  gas. 

On  the  other  hand,  I  also  contend  that  the  mucous 
secretions  or  discharges  of  any  and  all  organs  or  tis- 
sues, in  diseases  as  well  as  in  health,  are  found  to  be 
composed  of  the  same  constituents  that  make  up  the 
serous,  with  the  mere  incidental  difference  that  the 
gelatinous  and  transparent  substance  called  mucine 
(of  mucus  or  slime)  is  denser  than  the  gelatinous  and 
transparent  substance  called  serine,  or  synovin«  (of 
serum  or  lymph  or  joints).    That's  all. 


ga  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

And  as  for  pure  pus,  or  sero  pus,  or  muco  pus — it*s 
all  pus,  no  matter  where  found  or  how  mixed  or  pro- 
duced, and  it  contains  a  little  of  everything  that's  good 
and  bad  in  the  v/hole  body,  blood,  brain  and  all.  Ac- 
cording to  Hoppe-Seyler,  Gautier  and  Ranvier,  pus 
contains 

Albuminoids, 

Nuclein, 

Lecithin, 

Fats, 

Cholesterin, 

Cerebrin  (brain  essence). 

Salts. 

Now,  really,  if  the  so-called  progressive  or  "learned" 
men  who  are  inventing  new  "animal"  or  organic  cures 
were  at  all  consistent  they  would  not  waste  millions  of 
money,  or  horse-power  energy,  or  brain  in  extracting 
their  alleged  v»7onderful  elixirs  of  life,  which  they  inject 
into  human  beings — ^but  they  would  proceed  to  devise 
some  quick  natural  means  of  forcing  the  system  to 
manufacture  pus.  Why  not?  Pus  is  proven  to  con- 
sist of  the  very  substances  which  they  are  extracting 
from  the  genitals  or  other  organs  of  the  lower  ani- 
mals, which  they  inject  into  people.  All  they  can  ever 
expect  to  get  from  those  indecent  juices  are  nuclein, 
lecithin  and  cerebrin — call  it  what  they  like.  If  you 
shall  ask,  "Why,  then,  do  not  their  preparations  pro- 
duce the  same  symptoms  or  ailments  in  the  human 
body  that  pus  does?"  then  I  shall  answer  they  do. 
They  produce  the  identical  same  poisonous  results — 
to-wit:  the  symptoms  of  fever,  malaise,  or  infection 
which  invariably  follow  the  serum-injection.    But,  as 


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in  the  case  of  an  abscess  or  pus  discharge,  the  pouring 
of  the  chemical  pus-poisons  into  the  blood  is  constant 
and  continued  for  days  or  months ;  whereas  in  the  case 
of  the  "injected"  antitoxins  or  "serum"  the  dose  is 
small  and  given  only  at  distant  intervals — the  mani- 
festations of  fever  and  infection  are  milder  and  of 
shorter  duration  than  in  the  case  of  pus  or  abscess  in- 
fection. Hence  the  practice  of  injecting  "sera"  or 
antitoxic  cures  into  children  or  people  is  fraught  with 
the  same  danger  and  is  based  on  the  same  stupid  de- 
lusion as  was  the  formerly  existing  practice  of  trying 
to  cure  lupus  or  tuberculosis  of  the  skin  by  infecting 
the  affected  area  with  erysipelas.  Like  a  thousand  and 
one  ridiculous  and  pernicious  practices  that  have  had 
their  day,  so  the  present  ridiculous  and  pernicious 
craze  for  antitoxic  sera  is  having  its  days — and  vic- 
tims. Not,  however,  without  achieving  some  cures  on 
the  hit-or-m.iss  luck  of  which  the  whole  "castle-in- 
Spain"  system  is  based,  without  a  single  scientific  or 
common  sense  reason  or  explanation  for  the  "hit"  as 
well  as  for  the  "miss"  results — cures  or  deaths.  Sup- 
erstition, or  Suggestion,  or  Eddyism,  or  Dowieism,  or, 
to  go  back,  Perkinism  (with  his  little  rods),  or  Faith- 
ism  (the  man  with  a  horse-chestnut  in  his  breeches 
pocket)  can  cite  and  show  more  such  cures  to  the  yard 
or  yarn. 

Coming  back  to  our  subject,  I  may  then  ask  you  this 
last  question:  What,  then,  is  the  difference  whether 
the  mucous  or  muco-purulent  secretion  or  discharge,  or 
the  serous  or  sero-purulent  secretion  or  effusion,  or 
both,  constitutes  the  source  or  cause,  or  the  product  or 
effect,  of  the  ailment  or  disease ;  or  what  is  the  differ- 
ence whether  the  disease  or  ailment  which  is  caused  by, 


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or  is  producing,  th€  one  or  th«  ether  "discharge"  or 
"effusion"  resides  or  originates  in  any  one  particular 
organ  or  tissue,  or  hollow,  or  space,  seeing  that  the 
composition  of  the  juicy  substance  (whether  called 
discharge  or  effusion)  is  one  and  alike  in  the  very  tis- 
sue-cells and  the  cavities  or  channels  of  any  and  all 
organs  or  tissues  of  the  body,  and  seeing  that  their 
transient  or  permanent  habitat  is  the  blood?  None 
whatever.  Which  proves  that  my  final  contention  (the 
contention  of  the  Science  and  Practice  of  Autology) 
— namely,  that  as  the  constituent-origin  and  the  con- 
stituent-products and  the  constituent-habitat  (or  seat) 
of  any  and  all  diseases  or  ailments,  acute  and  chronic, 
infectious  and  contagious,  in  child,  man  and  woman, 
are  virtually  and  essentially  and  chemically  and  func- 
tionally one  and  alike  in  any  and  every  organ  and  tis- 
sue— is  not  only  well  founded  but  also  the  only  one 
which  a  sane  mind  can  hold.  Which  furthermore 
proves  that  any  and  ail  diseases  of  any  and  all  organs 
or  tissues  or  fluids  of  the  body  must  be  treated  and 
cured  alike  and  with  the  same  remedy. 

Hence,  you  must  grant  this :  Either  I  am  on  abso- 
lute terra  firma  or  I'm  way  off ;  either  Autopathy  is  the 
remedy  or  cure  for  any  and  ail  ailments  or  diseases  or 
it  isn't  for  a  blessed  one.  If  you  concede  one  pinch  of 
truth  to  Autology,  you  must  concede  that  Autology 
is  truth  and  sense  all  through.  If  you  concede  one 
genuine  cure  to  Autopathy  (and  that  you  and  nobody 
else  can  help  doing)  then  you  must  concede  that  it  is  a 
cure  for  all  ailments. 

Try  it  once^ — or  try  it  again — after  you  have  read 
every  word  of  this  book  and  see. 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  95 

However,  although  the  organs  and  tissuee  and  fluids 
of  your  body  shall  respond  equally  well  to  Autopathy 
or  autopathic  instructions,  you  must  not  overlook  the 
fact  that  the  response  or  results  may  appear  sooner  and 
greater  in  some  "cases"  than  in  others,  depending 
somewhat  upon  the  character  and  location  of  the  "sick" 
organ  or  tissue,  and  upon  age,  circumstances  and  en- 
vironments, but  never  upon  the  nature  or  cause  or 
name  of  the  disease,  or  fever,  or  ailment.  Never.  In 
a  general  way  all  those  organs  and  tissues  which  be- 
long to  Class  I  (communicating  directly  both  ways 
with  the  outer  world)  will  respond  to  and  be  cured 
quicker  by  Autology  than  the  others.  The  reason  for 
that  is  a  simple,  physical  one.  It's  easier  and  quicker 
work  to  chase  a  dog  out  when  you've  got  a  clean  sweep 
back  and  front,  and  it's  easier  and  quicker  work  to  do 
likewise  when  you've  got  one  opening  to  outdoors, 
than  when  you  haven't  any  and  must  wait  till  you  or 
the  animal  find  or  make  one.  Common  sense  tells 
you  that. 

For  instance,  you  can  as  a  rule  get  rid  of  a  spell  of 
vomiting  or  sick  stomach  quicker  than  you  can  of  a 
vomity  or  sick  brain.  The  stomach  is  opened  both 
ways,  and  the  brain  isn't.  You  can  get  rid  of  a  cold 
or  pneumonia  quicker  than  you  can  of  nephritis 
(Bright's  disease),  or  pleurisy,  or  inflammatory  rheu- 
matism. The  nose,  or  throat,  or  lungs  are  nearer  and 
in  more  direct  communication  with  the  outside  world 
than  are  the  kidneys,  or  the  joints,  or  the  chest  cavity 
(pleura).  And  so  forth.  But  I  can  hear  what  some 
are  thmking.  They  have,  for  instance,  some  bladder, 
or  some  womb,  or  some  prostatic,  or  some  nasal,  or 
some  throaty  or  some  bronchial,  or  some  rectal  trouble, 


96  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

and  they  want  to  ask  me  how  it  is  that  these  tissues, 
or  organs,  or  hollows,  being  so  very  near  and  in  direct 
communication  with  the  all  outdoors,  they  don't  get 
well  quick,  real  quick — don't  you  know?  And  I  am 
led  to  ansv/er  in  this  wise:  A  neighbor  once  had  a 
kitten — wiser  than  the  "maid" — v/ho  was  trying  to 
chase  the  kitten  out  of  the  house,  but  who  (the  maid) 
did  not  want  to  close  both  the  front  and  the  back  door, 
because  the  weather  v/as  so  hot.  So  when  the  kitten 
was  chased  out  one  door,  and  that  shut,  it  skitted  in 
the  other  door.  This  picnic  kept  on  until  the  girl 
made  up  her  mind  to  put  up  with  the  kitten.  Well, 
most  people  who  are  sick  and  who  happen  to  get  hold 
of  the  right  means  that  is  sure  to  chase  out  the  sick- 
kitten,  or  cause  of  their  sickness,  never  think  or  take 
the  trouble  to  prevent  the  same  or  similar  sickness- 
producing  kittens  from  getting  in  through  the  opened 
doors  of  their  bodies.  Hence,  the  ailm.ent  and  the 
discharge  comes  and  goes,  perhaps,  but  it's  sure  to 
turn  up,  as  did  the  kitten,  always.  Therefore,  do  not 
start  to  chase  your  ailment  with  Autopathy  until  you 
have  found  out  the  trick  or  wrinkle  of  keeping  doors 
and  v/indows  opened  all  you  want  and  still  shut  the 
kitten  out  for  keeps.  The  rest  of  this  book  tells  you 
all  the  particulars  and  solves  the  riddle  for  you  and 
everybody  for  now  and  all  times. 

Lest  you  might  assume  that  I  have  intentionally 
omitted  diseases  of  the  skin,  such  as  are  known  as 
eczema,  or  "salt  rheum,"  or  pimples,  or  acne,  or  black- 
heads and  coarse  skin,  or  psoriasis,  or  "shingles,"  or 
herpes,  and  another  hundred  more  or  less ;  or  lest  you 
might  assume  that  my  system,  or  Autopathy,  does  not 
include  those  diseases,  as  well  as  measles,  scarlet  fever 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  97 

and  other  ailments  or  derangements  which  are  evi- 
denced by  a  rash  or  an  eruption  on  or  in  the  skin — I 
shall  devote  a  few  remarks  to  this  class  of  ailments  to 
convince  you  that  they  are  amenable  to  the  same  im- 
mutable principles,  or  law,  or  cure  of  Autology. 

The  same  chemists  or  biologists  before  quoted  will 
tell  you  that  the  fibrous,  or  interstitial,  or  tegumentary 
(skin)  tissues  of  the  body  ooze  out  under  compression 
a  fluid,  effusion  or  "discharge,"  which  resembles  in 
appearance  and  composition  the  "healthy"  or  "sickly" 
juice,  or  effusion,  or  discharge  of  serous  or  of  mucous 
membranes  and  organs  and  tissues.  Hence,  when 
these  last  mentioned  organs,  or  tissues,  or  membranes 
cannot  dispose  of  the  "discharge"  or  "poison" — either 
because  the  total  accumulation  or  production  of  the 
"discharge"  is  too  great,  or  because  all  the  other  tis- 
sues, or  hollow  organs,  or  outlets  resist  or  object — then 
the  comparatively  dense  and  tough  tissue  of  the  skin 
is  called  upon  to  assist  in  the  elimination  or  disposing 
of  the  acrid  or  poisoning  discharge.  That's  why 
babies'  and  children's  and  youths'  skins  are  more  com- 
monly affected  and  afflicted  by  fever-diseases,  as  well 
as  by  deranged  conditions  of  the  stomach,  or  bowel,  or 
blood;  and  also  and  likewise  by  changes  in  the  char- 
acter of  the  liquids  and  solids  taken  as  nourishment, 
to-wit:  by  fruits  and  vegetables  at  certain  times  of 
the  year. 

Thus  it  becomes  impossible  to  puncture  the  armor  of 
Autology  even  in  diseases  or  affections  of  the  skin, 
or  in  conditions  which  mar  the  looks  or  complexions 
of  women  as  well  as  of  men. 

Autopathy  is  as  effective  and  speedy  and  certain  in 


g8  Autology — Study   Thyself 

its  effects  and  results  in  this  class  of  ailments  or  afflic- 
tions as  in  any  and  all  the  others  mentioned. 

Again,  it  may  appear  that  derangements  of  the  blood, 
or  of  the  nerves,  or  of  the  muscles  are  not  comprised 
in  the  two  mentioned  classes  of  organs  or  tissues; 
and,  therefore,  not  to  be  treated  or  cured  by  Au- 
topathy.  Nevertheless,  a  moment's  thought  will  sug- 
gest to  your  mind  that  the  blood  itself  must  suffer 
when  it  is  overstocked  or  understocked  with  the  sub- 
stances which  it  turns  over  to  your  organs,  or  to  your 
serous  and  mucous  membranes,  or  to  your  skin,  to  be 
utilized  or  disposed  of.  And,  likewise,  that  your 
nerves,  or  your  muscles,  or  both  and  aL,  must  suffer 
and  complain  when  they  are  compelled  to  work  or 
operate  under  such  unnatural  conditions.  Accordingly 
your  mind  will  perceive  and  understand  how  and  why 
the  same  Autopathic  instructions  will  cure  neuralgia, 
or  myalgia  (muscular  rheumatism),  or  neurasthenia, 
or  general  and  local  debility,  or  fagged-outness,  or 
headache  and  backaches,  or  heart  pains  and  side 
pains,  or  ovarian  pains  and  stomach  pains,  or 
soreness  and  weakness  anywhere  and  everywhere  in- 
side and  outside  of  the  body — as  well  as  they  will 
cure  infectious  or  fever  diseases,  or  catarrhal,  or  bil- 
ious, or  rheumatic,  or  other  ailments — of  which  the 
number  is  almost  unlimited  and  to  which  endless  list 
the  healing  professions  still  keep  and  intend  to  keep 
on  adding  as  accident,  or  convenience,  or  necessity,  or 
hunger  suggests  or  demands.  That's  easier  than  to 
study  and  think — and  it's  easier  and  more  fascinating 
to  shoot  up  in  a  balloon  than  it  is  to  dig  down  and 
build  a  foundation  on  bedrock,  and  then  v/ith  stone 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  99 

and  cement  to  raise  a  tower  of  Truth  and  Sense  that 
any  one  who  wills  may  and  can  climb  step  by  step  and 
see  beyond  with  that  feeling  and  realization  of  cer- 
tainty and  security  and  safety  which  never  falls  to  the 
lot  of  balloon-notoriety  or  soap-bubble  popularity. 

Therefore,  as  a  gas-plant  is  a  factory  of  illuminating 
gas  and  coal  tar,  so  the  human-pknt  is  a  factory  of  car- 
bonic acid  gas  and  blood  tar.  Both  plants  and  their 
respective  products  are  equally  useful,  beneficial  and 
negotiable  in  their  proper  places  and  for  their  respec- 
tive purposes ;  but  both  "plants"  and  products  are  abso- 
lute nuisances  and  poisons  otherwise. 


HUMANITY'S   INHERITANCE    AND 
BLESSINGS 


THE  UNBORN'S  PRAYER. 

AT  FIRST— 

To  be  conceived  in  the  beatitude  of  Love; 

To  be  born  of  judicious  parents ; 

To  be  nursed  at  a  wholesome  breast ; 

To  be  bred  on  physical  environments. 
AND  THEN— 

To  learn  but  not  be  taught ; 

To  think  but  not  be  thoughted. 


TO  BE  CONCEIVED  IN  THE  BEATITUDE 
OF  LOVE. 

Were  you?  You  don't  know.  Yet  you  do  know,  if 
you're  a  "parent,"  which  means  that  you  were.  And 
so  was  and  is  every  living  creature.  God  or  Nature 
was  not  that  thoughtless  or  unjust  as  to  permit  any 
of  His  or  Her  offspring  to  be  conceived  in  any  other 
state  than  that  of    Natural    Beatitude,  between  the 

100 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  loi 

wedded  "ferments" — whatever  may  have  been  the  con- 
ventional, or  social,  or  arbitrary,  or  legal,  or  artificial 
"states"  between  the  wedded  or  unwedded  parents. 
Hence  no  one  starts  handicapped  in  this  human 
"race"  as  far  as  Natural  Beatitude  is  concerned. 


TO  BE  BORN  OF  JUDICIOUS  PARENTS. 

That's  different.  If  you  were;  good.  If  you  were 
not,  you  were  truly  handicapped.  But  you  could  or 
should  have  won  your  "race"  just  the  same,  with 
brain  or  with  brawn,  and  thus  have  made  up  for  that 
disadvantage,  as  many  have  done  and  are  doing.  How? 

As  far  as  I  know  the  world  is  in  the  darkness  re- 
garding this  problem — which  is  ignorantly  accounted 
for  by  what  is  variously  called  "Heredity,"  "Luck," 
"Pluck,"  "Genius,"  "Prenatal  Influence,"  etc. — all  of 
which  belong  to  the  same  category  of  foolish  know- 
nots  to  which  belong  Witchcraft  and  Superstition. 
Nevertheless  the  light  shed  by  history,  through  its  hu- 
man torches  in  the  form  of  brilliant  or  illuminating 
brains  produced  by  extinct,  and  by  ancient,  and  by 
modern,  and  by  contemporary  races,  lifts  the  haze  or 
gloom  of  midnightness  from  this  living  puzzle. 

Most  great  Brains  were  born  in  what  are  commonly 
but  wrongly  supposed  to  be  injudicious  environments, 
if  not  of  injudicious  parents.  The  proof  of  that  is 
around  you,  before  your  eyes,  in  every  town  or  com- 
munity. Because  a  farmer's  boy  aims  and  lands  up 
high  in  New  York  or  Chicago,  and  it  is  found  that  he 


102  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

was  neither  "bom  of  judicious  parents"  nor  born  in 
"judicious"  surroundings — from  which  you  forget  that 
he  broke  loose  as  soon  as  he  could  dispose  of  his  axe  or 
buy  a  pair  of  shoes — would-be  learned  men  exclaim: 
"Ah !  but  there  was  blood  in  his  mother's  veins."  And 
if  there  wasn't,  "wise"  men  are  ready  with  the  as- 
sumption that  "there  was  blue  blood  in  some  grand  or 
great  grandparents." 

"Blue  blood"  indeed!  There's  as  fine  blue  blood  in 
your  veins  now  as  in  anybody's.  The  dubious  or  dif- 
ferential point  is  this,  however :  Does  your  blue  blood 
contain  too  much  carbonic  acid  gas  to  the  pint  or  to 
the  amount  of  oxygen? 

Well,  when  "heredity"  hides  her  face,  or  skips  a 
generation  or  two,  then  she's  called  Atavism.  "Ata- 
vism" is  heredity  gone  Rip  Van  Winkling.  She  gets 
drunk.  Is  turned  out.  Sleeps  a  generation  or  so. 
Wakes  up.  Meanders  back  to  town.  To  find  as  many 
skulls  filled  with  the  same  kind  of  stuff  that  the  "dog- 
gone" old  skulls  were. 

Sometimes  Heredity's  name  is  swapped  for  that  of 
Genius.  And  that's  when  off-brains  write  about 
Caesars  and  Napoleons  being  degenerates  or  crimi- 
nals, and  lay  their  "fits"  or  "degeneracy"  or  crimes  at 
Genius's  door;  when  the  truth  of  the  matter  is  that 
they  (the  fits,  degeneracy,  etc.),  should  be  laid  at  their 
(the  Caesars',  Napoleons',  Byrons',  Wilds',  etc.'s)  bed- 
room and  dining-room  doors,  or  somebody  else's.  You 
know  what  I  mean. 

Young  growing  Brains  that  till  and  fertilize  and  cul- 
tivate their  own  matter  to  the  pinnacle  of  mental  re- 
nown and  that  then  allow  their  stomachs  and  livers 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  103 

and  other  organs  to  beweed  and  befoul  them  (brains) 
never  live  to  a  ripe,  healthy,  sane  old  age.  They  can't. 
The  rest  of  their  organs  or  functions  is  too  many. 
Heredity,  atavism,  luck,  pluck,  talent,  character, 
genius,  success,  progress — one  and  all  exist  only  in 
light,  air,  water  and  foods,  whose  constituents 
alone  create  the  afore-mentioned  endowments,  when 
judiciously  combined  and  reorganized  by  the  indi- 
vidual's blood  and  organs. 

Atavism,  Heredity  and  Genius  are  words  on  which 
Ignorance  falls  back  when  she  is  cornered.  It  means 
that  if  you  are  a  toper  or  a  star  and  your  father  wasn't, 
then  somebody  between  you  and  Adam  (inclusive) 
was.  It  means  that  a  chump  would  rather  "chappy" 
his  vanity  by  blaming  ancient  history  for  his  deficiency 
than  his  own  stupid  habits  or  crass  ignorance. 

What  of  it  if  you  haven't  been  bom  of  judicious  pa- 
rents or  grandparents?  A  nice  heap  of  judiciousness 
you'd  find  at  the  bottom  of  everybody's  ancestral  cis- 
tern if  you  went  far  or  deep  enough. 

If  you  be  young  at  this  reading,  and  you  have  "judi- 
cious" parents — ^you  are  fortunate  indeed!  Because 
yours  is  the  opportunity,  without  excuse  for  missing 
it,  of  possessing  early  in  life  the  "mens  sana  in  corpore 
sano"  (a  sound  mind  in  a  sound  body)  which  five,  aye 
a  hundred  generations  or  "breedings,"  could  not  pos- 
sibly endow  you  with. 

And,  here,  kind  readers,  let  me  think  aloud  for  the 
immediate  and  future  benefit  of  growing  boys  and 
girls,  as  well  as  for  the  happiness  of  your  aging  or  de- 
parting  days. 


104  Autology — Study   Thyself 

The  "learned"  are  instructing  the  mind — but  not 
educating  the  brain  of  your  children.  They  are  stuffing 
their  minds,  but  starving  their  brains.  Hygienists,  Die- 
tarians,  chefs  and  cooks  are  "slopping"  livers  but 
"milking"  brains.  What  can  be  expected  from  all  that? 
If  not  odoriferous  and  malubrious  notions  and  prod- 
ucts? Pick  up  your  papers,  read  from  some  of  your 
books,  sit  with  your  children  in  school  or  out  of  school, 
and  listen.  Then  let  me  see  you  blush  from  shame  or 
anger.  And,  after  taking  a  walk  around  the  block  or 
garden,  step  into  your  house  or  their  school  rooms  or 
sleeping  rooms.  Does  it  smell  and  feel  just  as  heavenly 
sweet  and  "judicious"  as  you  found  it  outdoors?  Well, 
is  your  son  or  daughter  breathing  and  thinking  in 
those  places  what's  "judicious"  or  injudicious  for  their 
mind  and  character,  as  well  as  for  their  lungs  and 
blood? 

Madam,  what's  that  you're  cooking  or  putting  on 
the  table?  What  kind  of  a  mess  is  it  going  to  fill  up 
their  stomachs  with?  What  kind  of  mind  or  brain 
producing  stuff  is  that,  if  you  please?  Shocks!  they 
get  enough  learning  at  school  or  at  work.  Does  he? 
Does  she?  Can  you  imprint  "learning"  on  mush  or 
slime  or  slush?  Can  a  brain  "hold  up"  the  liver  for 
food?  Can  you  make  silk  with  cotton?  Shoddy  looks 
a  bit  like  wool — ^but  you  know  what  shoddy  is.  Well, 
"shoddy"  brains  or  minds  can  repeat  shoddy  knowl- 
edge printed  in  books,  or  oozing  from  "watered" 
brains;  but  what  counts  in  this  world  and  every  other 
world  is  the  brain  matter  that  "thinks."  And  no  brain 
matter  can  think  or  improve  its  thinking  on  messed-up 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  105 

air  and  drinkables  and  eatables.  I  don't  care  what  you 
or  anybody  believe,  I  know  this  much,  and  Nature 
and  History  back  me  up,  if  you  will  give  your  infant 
or  child  from  now  on  the  kind  of  air  and  water  and 
foods  that  God  and  Nature  made  for  him  or  her,  that 
brain  will  take  care  of  its  future  education  and  prog- 
ress and  promotion.  Neither  you  nor  anybody  can 
down  or  squelch  it. 

So,  by  "judicious  parents"  I  simply  mean  this:  Give 
your  unborns  and  newborns  and  oldborns  natural  air, 
light,  water  and  foods  and  mark  well  that  if  you  can't 
afford  anything  else,  that  will  be  giving  them  and  your- 
self and  humanity  a  glorious  inheritance  and  blessing. 

Degenerates  and  criminals  and  good-for-nothings 
are  not  born.  Hence  degeneracy  or  criminality  or 
good-for-nothingness  is  always  acquired  and  never  in- 
herited or  transmitted.  It  is  always  taught,  or  pounded 
or  hounded  or  jawed  into  children;  or  it  is  nursed  (I 
mean  breast  or  bottle  nursed),  or  it  is  fed  (I  mean 
mouth  and  nose  and  stomach  fed),  or  it  is  bred  (I 
mean  home  or  school  or  street  bred)  into  childhood  or 
youth.  It  is  never  transmitted  from  humanity's  rear, 
called  heredity. 

You  may  say :  "He  looks  and  talks  and  acts  like  his 
parent  or  relative."  Well,  did  you  expect  him  to  look 
and  talk  and  act  like  a  monkey?  Whose  talking  and 
walking  and  acting  did  he  have  to  ape  or  pattern  his 
own  after? 

"But  he  complains  of  his  stomach,  or  head,  or  kid- 
neys ;  or  is  subject  to  headaches,  or  fits,  or  catarrh  or 
rheumatism ;  or  has  weak  eyes,  etc.,  etc.,  like  his  father 


io6  Autology — Study  Thyself 

or  mother."  Well,  at  whose  table  did  he  leam  to  feed 
and  drink,  and  in  whose  bed  or  room  did  he  learn  to 
sleep  and  breathe ;  and  by  whose  light  did  he  learn  to 
read  and  study,  etc.?  Can't  you  see  that  2+2  make  4 
and  that  2-I-3  make  5,  or  that  a  nature-made  brain,  or 
stomach,  or  kidney,  or  eye,  etc.,  plus  sickly  nur- 
ture-made milk,  or  air,  or  food,  or  light,  or  education, 
or  example,  make  dunces  and  fools,  degenerates  and 
criminals? 

A  child's  brain  is  like  a  fresh  onion,  ready  to  give  off 
and  to  absorb  bad  and  good  smells  alike. 

The  brain  of  infants  and  children,  young  and  old, 
acquires  its  characteristics  and  knowledge  by  aping 
and  repeating  what  parents  and  nurses  and  teachers 
do  and  say- — in  their  talk  and  thoughts,  in  their  drinks 
and  foods,  in  their  manners  and  behaviors.  For  that 
matter  people's  brains  and  tongues  and  bodies  keep 
that  mimicking  up  or  down  to  the  grave.  Hence  the 
public's  admiration  and  worship  for  "self-made"  men 
and  women — which  means  simply  that  the  "self- 
made"  men  and  women  broke  loose  from  their  former 
nests  and  broods  and  environments. 

Heredity  is  cheap  or  second-hand  imitation.  Genius 
is  genuine  nutrition. 

Sickness  is  cheap  or  second-hand  imitation.  Health 
is  genuine  nutrition. 

Heredity's  alleged  sicknesses  are  acquired  or  repro- 
duced purely  by  imitating  the  sick  air  and  light  and 
drinks  and  foods  and  manners  and  behaviors  of  parents 
or  associates.  In  no  other  way. 

Genius,  or  perfect  brain  matter,  is  acquired  or  repro- 
duced purely  by  imitating  the  healthy  air  and  light 


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and  drinks  and  foods  and  manners  and  behaviors  of — 
not  parents'  or  associates' — of  Self.  In  other  words  of 
Nature.  And  genius  endures  until  the  brain's  associa- 
tions or  vices  modify  its  air,  light,  drinks,  foods  and 
habits.  After  which  the  owner  of  the  genius-brain 
acquires  (not  inherits)  his  or  her  just  deserts. 


TO  BE  NURSED  AT  A  WHOLESOME  BREAST. 

What's  a  '^wholesome  breast?"  It's  a  breast  whose 
glands  are  supplied  with  blood  containing  a  proper 
mixture  of  the  three  "materials"  before  mentioned.  No 
more.  Those  three  things  always  manufacture  a  plen- 
tiful supply  of  mother's  milk — of  the  "brand"  that 
enables  any  brain,  organ,  or  tissue  to  develop  into  the 
equal  of  any  contained  in  skulls  or  covered  with  skins 
or  membranes.  Try  it  on  your  babies — follow  it  up  in 
the  mixtures  they  get  when  old  enough  to  eat  at  your 
table ;  old  enough  to  go  to  school ;  old  enough  to  learn 
a  trade  or  profession — and  see.  If  you  do,  and  have 
judgment  enough  not  to  display  your  bad  "temper"  or 
"manners"  before  them,  and  not  to  answer  their  ques- 
tions with  meaningless  explanations ;  and,  particularly, 
if  you've  got  sense  and  grit  enough  to  say  "I  don't 
know"  when  you  cannot  convey  to  their  brains  the 
kind  of  information  that  their  minds  can  see  and  taste 
the  meaning  of  as  their  eyes  can  see  the  color  and 
their  tongues  taste  the  juice  of  oranges  or  apples;  if 
you  do  that,  I  say,  your  child  or  children  shall  surpass 
you,  in  brain  and  physique,  in  mind  and  development, 


io8  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

in  success  and  progress,  long  before  they  reach  ma- 
turity. 

But  don't  forget  to  do  it  with  and  to  your  own  brains 
and  minds,  too.  For  children's  brains  are  ever  watch- 
ing and  imbibing  yours,  its  refuse  as  well  as  its 
produce. 


TO  BE  BRED  ON  PHYSICAL  ENVIRONMENTS. 

Nature  takes  millions  of  years  preparing  for  the  birth 
of  a  baby — and  parents  attend  the  event  with  little  or 
no  preparation.  Hence  the  commonest  thing  in  this 
world  is  a  "cute"  baby,  and  the  rarest  object  is  a  ra- 
tional man  or  woman.  The  reverse  is  true  among  the 
plants  and  beasts. 

The  baby !  The  child — the  youth  ?  And  then  the  nine- 
ty-nine sheep  and  the  one  shepherd!  And  why?  Be- 
cause parents  start  in  with  the  idea  that  they  are  going 
to  teach  "it"  (!)  a  thing  or  two — when  Nature  spent 
millions  of  years  envolving  the  "it"  for  the  sole  pur- 
pose of  imparting  to  overgrown  "its"  some  things  and 
many.  Who  wins?  Nature.  For  she  tries  again — ^here 
or  elsewhere.  But  the  neuters  outnumber  the  other 
genders  by  millions  to  one. 

Who  is  to  blame?  Not  nature.  She  brings  "baby" 
into  this  world  ready-made— brain  and  all ;  into  a  ready- 
made  world  ot  natural  environments — air,  light,  water 
and  other  foodstuffs.  But  men  and  women  have  sub- 
stituted other  provisions  for  these  natural  conditions— 


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so  the  air  is  vitiated,  the  light  is  artificial,  the  water  is 
deficient  and  the  foodstuffs  are  "predigested"  or  un- 
natural. Hence — what  a  "cute"  baby !  What  a  "bright" 
child  (?).  What  an  unknown  quantity  in  the  world's 
progress ! 

Everything  but  courting  and  honeymoon  is  left  to 
others.  No  brains  are  fed  (I  mean  fed)  into  the  unborn 
and  the  born  baby.  How  do  you  expect  to  bring  up  or 
supply  men  and  women  except  by  accident? 

Nature  does  not  make  apples  out  of  peaches,  which 
means  that  brain  cells  cannot  make  brains  with  what 
liver  cells  manufacture  bile.  There  is  the  whole  secret 
of  ability,  talent  and  genius. 

Manufacture  your  babies  as  you  like.  If  they  are 
bom  at  all  they  will  be  born  human — and  then  it  rests 
with  you  to  make  intellectual  peers  or  mental  waste 
baskets  out  of  their  brains.  If  you  feed  their  brains 
with  the  elements  found  in  air,  light,  water  and  grow- 
ing things  they  will  develop  into  eminent  intellects  in 
spite  of  you;  but  if  you  overlook  the  physical  elements 
that  sustain  and  evolve  organic  and  inorganic  blood- 
and-flesh  functions,  and  lay  stress  on  feeding  their 
brains  and  stomachs  with  "mental"  air  and  light  and 
water  and  foods,  your  children  are  bound  to  become, 
nonentities  or  degenerates. 

The  baby!  If  people  understood  the  things  which 
surround  and  control  their  own  existence  and  living- 
ness  the  best  "schooling"  would  be  at  home.  But  as 
long  as  it  may  take  quite  a  few  centuries  before  the 
home  becomes  the  only  recognized  schoolroom  and  the 
parents  the  best  and  proper  "teachers"  of  their  own 
children — let  parents  so  regulate  the  air  and  light  and 


no  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

heat  and  liquids  and  solids  which  surround  and  enter 
their  children's  bodies  that  their  brains  may  possess  a 
positive  affinity  for  the  facts  and  truths  which  teachers 
and  others  try  to  impart  to  them,  and  possess  as  nega- 
tive or  repelling  a  tension  against  all  false  notions  or 
hypotheses  or  "mentalities."  In  other  words,  I  claim 
that  a  brain  whose  blood  is  fed  right  cannot  make  a 
mistake  between  a  false  and  a  correct  idea  or  thought 
any  more  than  fingers  or  toes  can  between  hot  and  cold 
sensations. 


TO  LEARN  BUT  NOT  BE  TAUGHT. 

By  which  I  mean  to  earn  but  not  to  borrow  your 
knowledge.  You  earn  to  own  other  people's  money. 
So,  you  must  learn  to  know  other  people's  knowledge 
— not  merely  learn  to  borrow  it.  You  either  lose  or 
return  borrowed  money.  So,  likewise,  you  either  lose 
or  return  borrowed  knowledge,  or  knowledge  that  has 
been  taught  to  you  and  not  learned  by  you.  "To  be 
taught"  anything  is  to  be  trained  to  repeat  it  as  parrots 
or  trained  animals  are  taught.  You  cannot  impart  it 
any  more  than  they  can — although  you  may  for  a  time 
convert  it  into  cash  or  notoriety,  as  "freaks"  do;  but 
soon  or  late  your  apish  or  "streaky"  knowledge  will 
bring  you  grief. 

Rather  practice  ignorance  as  you  practice  economy 
than  to  practice  or  believe  knowledge  that  you  do  not 
thoroughly  understand  in  and  out  and  clear  through. 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  izz 

You  would  not  dare  to  fool  with  a  steam  engine  or  an 
electric  power-plant  unless  your  own  brain  and  fingers 
owned  the  "know-how"  of  running  it.  Yet  you  pitch 
right  in  blind-folded  fooling  with  the  mechanism  or 
functions  of  your  own  brains  and  organs,  as  well  as 
with  that  or  those  of  your  children.  And  what's  more 
you  usually  or  frequently  pass  their  brains  over  to 
others,  in  the  way  of  books  or  teachers  or  associates 
or  servants,  to  finger  and  fidget  and  run  as  best  or 
worst  suits  the  convenience  or  habits  or  passions  of 
those  strangers. 

Must  you  never  let  your  children  out  of  your  sight? 
Surely  you  must  and  can.  But  be  sure  that  you  keep 
and  have  an  eye  too  on  and  for  those  to  whose  care 
you  entrust  your  children,  as  you  are  wont  to  keep  and 
have  on  and  for  people  who  are  investing  or  earning 
your  money. 

And  that's  the  easiest  thing  in  the  world  to  do.  If 
you've  got  a  ranch  or  kennel,  or  stock  farm,  or  mine, 
or  boat,  or  house,  somewhere — you  make  a  point  and 
practice  of  keeping  an  eye  on  things,  don't  you?  Well, 
isn't  it  worth  your  while  to  keep  an  eye  on  your  child's 
inside  things  too? 

Yes,  take  an  occasional  run  to  the  little  or  big  school 
house;  and  raise  a  rumpus,  if  necessary.  Your  son's 
or  daughter's  brain,  or  lungs,  or  eyes,  are  worth  it.  If 
you  are  not  endowed  with  that  faculty  which  enables 
some  people  to  gain  their  point  without  making  a  fail- 
ure or  fiasco  of  it — then  "think  it  over"  after  the  fol- 
lowing plan* 


1X2  A  u  t  o  I  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

TO  THINK  BUT  NOT  BE  THOUGHTED. 

"To  think  but  not  be  thoughted"  means  to  work  your 
own  brain  but  not  to  let  others  work  it.  It  also  means 
to  work  other  brains  when  other  brains  don't  suit  the 
workings  of  your  brain.  This  of  course  can  be  done 
for  bad  as  well  as  for  good  ends.  I  am  only  interest- 
ed in  the  latter;  for  if  everybody  worked  their  own 
brains  for  good  ends  it  would  become  impossible  for 
any  brain  to  work  any  other  brain  for  evil  ends. 
Therefore,  if  your  child  is  in  somebody's  keeping  or 
care  or  schooling,  and  you  discover  that  their  brains  or 
eyes  or  ears  or  stomachs  or  lungs  are  "being  thought- 
ed" wrongly — either  in  the  way  of  air,  light,  drinks 
and  foods,  or  in  the  way  of  learning— then  take  your 
choice :  Either  put  up  with  it  ignorantly  as  most  par- 
ents do  and  have  done,  but  be  prepared  to  suffer  or 
submit  to  the  consequences  which  generally  follow  in 
the  future  health  or  career  of  som.e  one  or  other  of  the 
sons  and  daughters  of  most  families;  or  insist  on 
changes  being  made  to  suit  reason  and  sense  and  health 
of  brain  and  eye  and  lung  and  blood;  or  let  "school- 
ing" or  "training"  or  "graduating"  "go  hang"  rather 
than  your  children. 

How  glorious  it  is  to  think!  To  think  oneself  and 
for  one's  self  and  with  one's  own  brain,  I  mean. 

To  think  is  work,  of  course.  And  it's  a  habit  too. 
Just  like  smoking,  or  talking,  or  dancing.  But  read- 
ing, or  repeating,  or  talking  is  not  thinking  or  to  think ; 
any  more  than  puffing  away  at  an  empty  pipe  is  smok- 
ing. You  know  what  work  it  is  at  first  to  learn  to 
dance,  for  most  people ;  and  how  you  have  to  put  your 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  113 

mind  and  soul  into  your  feet  and  companion  and 
music.  Well,  it  requires  the  same  putting  of  mind  and 
soul  into  your  brains  and  books  and  thoughts,  or 
others',  in  order  to  acquire  and  enjoy  the  habit  of 
learning  to  think. 

To  be  thoughted  is  exactly  like  being  "wall  flow- 
ered" at  dances. 

A  sure,  swift  and  easy  v/ay  to  acquire  the  habit  of 
"To  Think"  for  yourself  and  your  own  good  is  to  open 
this  book  at  any  page  after  you  have  read  it  through. 
Read  that  page,  look  it  square  in  the  eye,  and  ask  your- 
self this  question:  "Is  he  right?"  If  you  think  so, 
or  do  not  think  so,  ask  yourself  the  question:  "Why?" 
But  be  sure  and  be  careful  that  you  do  not  answer 
your  question  with  ideas  or  notions  that  you  have  bor- 
rowed from  others.  If  that  page  contains  statements 
or  information  which  absolutely  "fit"  or  mate  with 
your  own  knowledge  or  experience  or  judgment,  never 
you  mind  what  you  may  have  read  or  heard  or  been 
taught  or  thoughted  before  or  elsewhere.  If  that  page 
contains  statements  or  information  which  does  not  co- 
incide with  your  own  knowledge  or  experience,  then 
comes  your  opportunity  to  do  some  thinking  on  your 
own  account.  But  beware  that  you  do  not  pick  out 
from  your  experience  or  surroundings  some  "excep- 
tional" event  or  happening,  or  some  mere  hearsay, 
(which  tradition,  and  not  truth,  has  handed  down  to 
you  through  a  thousand  and  one  mouths),  and  then  use 
that  exception  to  deny  the  rule,  or  that  hearsay  to 
pervert  the  truth. 

Exceptions  and  hearsays  never  enter  in  arithmetic 
and  money;  that's  because  figures  and  dollars  can't 


114  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

"be  thoughted."  But  the  moment  arithmetic  is  manip- 
ulated for  purposes  of  statistics,  or  money  for  purposes 
of  cheating,  then  exceptions  and  hearsays  and  lies 
creep  in  right  and  left.  And  that's  because  you  do  not 
compel  your  own  brain  to  think  out  the  exception  back 
to  its  rule,  and  the  hearsay  or  information  back  to  its 
delusion.  If  you  did  you  would  always  find  that  ex- 
ceptions must  never  be  used  to  prove  or  disprove  the 
rule,  and  that  hearsays  must  never  be  used  to  prove  or 
disprove  the  truth.  Don't  believe  or  accept  anything 
that  is  akin  to  Exception  or  Superstition — or  that  sa- 
vors of  Hearsay.  That  stuff  is  all  contaminated.  It's 
bound  to  sicken  your  mind.  It's  sure  to  lead  your 
brain  astray — or  to  mortgage  it  in  such  a  way  that  it 
becomes  impossible  for  it  to  absorb  or  assimilate  any 
real,  useful  knowledge  with  that  section  or  convolu- 
tion. 

As  you  work  by  rule  and  acts,  so  think  by  rule  and 
facts.    Not  by  guesses,  hearsays,  or  exceptions. 

Thus  only,  and  by  such  only,  are  big  brains  made 
and  brilliant  minds  produced  and  strong  characters 
formed,  and  enduring  success,  health  and  happiness 
gained  and  retained.  In  no  other  way  and  by  no  other 
means. 

Therefore,  do  think — but  do  not  be  thoughted.  Do 
learn — but  do  not  be  taught. 

As  you  observe,  Autology  aims  its  shafts  as  well 
as  its  truths  and  sense  at  the  brain;  for  'tis  the  brain 
that's  responsible  for  all  the  good  and  bad,  all  the  in- 
telligence and  ignorance,  all  the  health  and  sickness, 
all  the  glory  and  misery  of  the  individual,  of  the  fami- 
ly, of  the  community,  of  the  nation,  of  the  world. 


A  ut  op  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  115 

The  brain  creates  a  child's  future.  If  you  bring  up 
your  child's  brain  with  the  idea  that  you  are  its 
"teacher"  you  will  develop  a  mentality  that  will  abort 
before  your  boy  or  girl  is  twenty-one. 

The  only  rational  method  of  developing  children's 
intellect  is  by  feeding  their  brains  through  their  lungs 
and  stomachs. 

Judicious  fertilizing  with  environments  and  air  and 
light  and  water  and  nourishment  is  alone  productive 
of  genius.  I  am  convinced  that  talent  or  ability  or 
genius  is  fed  into  a  brain  as  it  is  fed  into  a  muscle. 
Feed  your  child's  lungs  and  stomachs  with  an  abund- 
ance of  pure  and  substantial  physical  brain  foods,  and 
omit  the  artificial  and  mental,  and  your  child's  brain 
will  actually  know  more  at  the  age  of  seven  than  you 
did  at  twenty. 

But— do  likewise  with  your  own  brain. 

The  liver  is  a  big  organ — ^because  it  is  the  store- 
house of  fuel  and  the  power-plant  of  brute  force  and 
animal  passions. 

The  brain  is  a  big  organ  too — because  it  is  the  store- 
house of  knowledge  and  the  power-plant  of  intellectual 
force  and  mental  conceptions. 

You  need  both.  You've  got  both.  Which  do  you 
like  "best?"   Autology's  choice  is  the  Brain. 


WHAT  YOU  ARE  MADE  OF  AND 
WHY  YOU  EAT 

If  you  can  answer  that  in  a  "business"  way,  you 
can  repair  and  renew  what's  in  you  at  will.  If  you 
can't,  then  health  is  a  mere  matter  of  luck  with  you  and 
you  are  more  likely  to  stay  sick  than  to  stay  or  get 
well. 

You  are  not  made  of  very  many  things — ^just  about 
as  many  as  pennies  go  in  a  dime  plus  two  or  three. 
Your  blood  and  flesh  is  made  up  chiefly  of  oxygen, 
hydrogen,  carbon  and  nitrogen,  and  those  Nature  has 
"seasoned"  with  a  little  sodium,  potassium,  calcium, 
iron,  sulphur  and  phosphorus.  Undoubtedly  for  the 
purpose  of  giving  your  flesh  and  tissues  a  little  "body," 
and  to  "preserve"  them  and  make  them  conductors 
and  generators  of  electricity. 

Now,  let  me  ask  you,  "What  do  you  breathe  and 
drink  and  eat  for?"  Of  course,  you  will  answer,  In 
order  to  supply  my  body  with  the  elements  or  sub- 
stances just  mentioned.  But  I  will  ask  again,  "Does 
it  make  any  difference  in  what  form  you  get  the  foods 
which  contain  those  elements?"  You  suppose  so.  But 
you  ought  to  know.  The  real  object  of  foods  is  to  pro- 
duce force  and  heat  in  the  body  and  to  repair  or  renew 
or  build  up  tissue.  Hence,  foods  are  divided  into 
"flesh  formers"  (or  tissue  builders)  and  "force  pro- 
ne 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  117 

ducers."  The  force  producers  furnish  fuel,  or  main- 
tain animal  heat  and  supply  energy,  or  muscular  ac- 
tion. 

The  "tissue  builders"  (or  flesh  formers)  consist  of 
meats,  fowl,  fish,  eggs,  milk  and  animal  fats,  and  are 
called  "animal  foods,"  or  "nitrogenous."  The  "force 
producers"  are  cereals,  or  starches,  vegetables  proper, 
fruits,  sugars,  gums,  vegetable  fats  and  oils,  and  are 
called  "vegetable  foods,"  or  "non-nitrogenous."  Now, 
see  if  you  can  remember  these  things: 

First. — That  to  live  you  have  to  take  in  fuel  for  heat 
and  motion,  and  for  that  reason  you  need  "vegetable" 
or  "non-nitrogenous"  foods,  such  as  bread,  potatoes, 
rice,  fruits,  sugar,  "green"  and  other  vegetables,  etc. 

Second. — That  to  live  you  have  to  keep  adding  ma- 
terial or  repairing  and  renewing  or  rebuilding  your 
flesh,  and  for  that  reason  you  need  "animal"  or  "nitro- 
genous" foods,  such  as  meats,  fowl,  fish,  eggs,  milk, 
etc. 

Third. — That  there  is  also  heat,  or  fuel,  or  force  value 
in  the  tissue-building  foods,  and  that  there  is  also 
tissue  or  flesh  value  in  the  "force  or  heat"  producing 
foods;  but  that  there  is  miore  "tissue"  value  in  the 
"animal"  foods  and  more  "force"  value  in  the  "vege- 
table" foods. 

Please  don't  fancy  that  "vegetable"  foods  refer 
merely  to  green  vegetables,  as  commonly  understood, 
for  "vegetable  foods"  refers  as  much  to  bread,  rice, 
com,  potatoes,  etc.,  as  to  apples,  oranges,  pears, 
peaches,  and  to  lettuce,  celery,  tomatoes,  peas,  beans, 
etc. 

Now,  then,  knowing  what  you  are  made  of,  and  what 


ii8  Autology — Study   Thyself 

you  are  eating  for,  and  surely  knowing  what  kind  of 
work  you  are  doing — you  certainly  ought  to  knov/ 
whether  your  body  is  in  need  of  more  tissue-forming 
foods  than  of  force-producing  foods.  And  you  ought 
to  know  whether  or  not  you  have,  in  the  past,  attended 
to  the  general  and  special  demands  of  your  body  or 
organs  in  that  direction.  The  fact  that  you  are  ailing 
shows  that  you  haven't. 

Suppose  your  work  is  mostly  muscular  exertion, 
then  you  need  a  greater  proportional  supply  of  "force- 
producing"  foods,  although  you  also  need  a  liberal 
supply  of  tissue-forming  or  repairing  foods. 

But  if  your  work  is  mostly  of  the  brain-type,  then 
you  need  a  larger  proportional  supply  of  the  tissue- 
builders  than  of  the  other,  in  a  sense  to  be  explained. 

If  your  work  is  chiefly  "brainy"  and  you  assimilate 
an  excess  of  the  "fuel"  foods,  then  the  surplus  is  bound 
to  accumulate  as  waste  and  decompose  as  poisons,  and 
eventually  cause  sickness. 

But  how  are  you  going  to  determine  how  much  of 
each  and  what  proportion  one  to  the  other?  In  the 
first  place  you  know  what  kind  of  work  you  do — as 
owners  do  about  horses. 

No  horse  is  let  loose  in  the  oat  bin  or  hay  loft.  Its 
meal  is  measured  out  to  him  according  to  his  pedigree, 
size,  work,  age,  etc. 

But  don't  imagine  that  the  brain-worker  needs  more 
meat  and  eggs  (tissue-builders)  than  the  brawn- 
worker,  for  the  brawn-worker  is  using  up .  far  more 
tissue  than  the  brain-worker  and  really  needs  a  larger 
proportional  amount  of  tissue  foods;  and  don't  imag- 
ine that  the  brain-worker  can  get  along  with  no  cereals 


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and  fruits  and  vegetables  (heat  and  force  producers), 
although  he  requires  a  smaller  proportional  amount; 
and  don't  imagine  that  the  respective  amounts  and 
proportions  are  not  affected  by  age,  and  sex,  and 
environments,  and  seasons,  and  climate,  and  holidays. 

During  the  period  of  growth  more  tissue-forming 
foods  are  required  than  after,  because  the  body  needs 
them  to  add  to  the  sum  total  of  each  organ  and  tissue, 
besides  repairing  and  renewing  the  worn  and  torn. 
After  the  period  of  growth  the  amount  of  tissue-form- 
ing foods  must  be  diminished,  as  thereafter  only 
enough  is  called  for  to  keep  up  repair  or  renewal.  Any 
excess  goes  to  waste  and  sickness. 

And  as  the  activities  of  life,  or  of  business,  or  of 
occupation  change,  so  must  the  total  amount  and  pro- 
portions also  be  changed.  A  woman  during  the  years 
of  bringing  up  a  family  and  caring  for  home,  husband 
and  children  must  eat  more  tissue  and  force-producing 
foods  than  after.  And  the  man  who  steps  from  be- 
hind a  counter  to  become  manager  or  owner  will  need 
to  change  his  diet.  And  the  youth  who  leaves  the 
farm  for  college,  or  manual  labor  for  brain  labor,  must 
also  change  his  foods.  And  so  with  youths  who  be- 
come parents. 

As  you  know  there  are  a  thousand  and  one  consider- 
ations to  take  into  account.  It  does  look  as  if  the  mat- 
ter was  indeed  very  complicated,  and  that,  as  dema- 
gogues would  have  you  believe,  it  requires  the  expen- 
sive services  of  an  expert  to  disentangle  such  things 
for  you.  But  that  is  not  at  all  necessary;  for  you 
know,  or  can  find  out,  what  you  should  weigh  accord- 
ing to  your  height  and  age,  and  you  have  a  good  idea 


120  Autology — Study   Thyself 

of  whether  you  earn  your  living  and  pleasures  chiefly 
by  means  of  your  brain  and  nerves  or  by  means  of  your 
liver  and  muscles.  You  may  look  upon  your  liver  as 
the  fount  of  physical  and  muscular  power,  and  on  your 
brain  as  the  fount  of  mental  and  nervous  power. 

If  your  demands  on  both  brain  and  liver,  or  nerve 
and  muscle,  are  about  equally  divided  between  them, 
then  eat  about  an  equal  proportion  of  the  two  classes 
of  food.  But,  as  the  tissue-forming  foods  (as  meat 
and  eggs)  come  in  a  more  condensed  form  than  the 
force-producing  (as  bread,  potatoes,  fruit  and  vegeta- 
bles), then,  bulk  for  bulk,  you  will  need,  in  the  twenty- 
four  hours,  more  of  the  latter  than  of  the  former.  As 
the  second  class  of  foods  are  more  numerous  and  vary 
more  in  the  amount  and  density  of  their  constituents, 
you  must  eat  a  greater  daily  variety  and  bulk  of  them, 
a  matter  which  is  not  so  important  regarding  the  flesh- 
forming  foods. 

For  instance,  you  might  be  eating  just  the  right 
amount  of  meat  every  day,  but  the  wrong  amount  of 
bread  and  potatoes ;  or  you  might  be  eating  the  wrong 
am.ount  of  meat  or  eggs,  and  the  right  amount  and 
variety  of  cereals,  vegetables  and  fruits,  but  at  im- 
proper times,  or  improperly  cooked,  or  improperly 
combined  in  one  meal,  or  in  one  day. 

I  find  from  experience  that  the  improper  cooking 
and  the  eating  of  foods  at  improper  times  of  day,  and 
the  improper  mixing  of  them  at  the  same  meal,  is  re- 
sponsible for  more  troubles  and  ailments,  functional 
and  organic,  than  the  eating  of  too  much  of  one  kind 
of  food  or  of  all  kinds. 

For  those  reasons  I  find  it  necessary  to  specify  a 


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diet  for  breakfast,  dinner  and  supper,  chiefly  because 
of  the  mistakes  people  make  in  eating  in  the  morn- 
ing what  should  only  be  eaten  at  noon  or  evening,  and, 
in  eating,  at  the  same  meal,  foods  which  are  "incom- 
patibles."  Let  me  tell  you  something  regarding  "in- 
compatible" foods,  a  subject  which  neither  physicians 
or  hygienists  pay  the  slightest  attention  to. 

All  up-to-date  medical  books,  treating  of  drugs, 
state  what  drugs  are  incompatible  with  other  drugs, 
under  each  and  every  medicine  treated  of.  For  in- 
stance, take  iodide  of  potassium,  which  is  a  specific  for 
a  certain  constitutional  disease,  and  the  iodide  (yel- 
low) of  mercury,  which  is  also  a  "specific"  for  the 
same  disease.  Well,  if  these  two  drugs  are  given  to 
the  same  patient,  they  form  a  very  poisonous  com- 
pound in  the  system  and  aggravate  all  the  symptoms. 
This  is  only  one  instance,  of  which  there  are  thou- 
sands. I  may  call  up  the  remark  elsewhere  made — 
that  this  is  the  reason  why  ignorance  has  given  birth 
to  the  delusion,  which  ignorance  still  clings  to,  that 
"one  man's  food  is  another  man's  poison."  Ignorance 
puts  the  blame  either  on  the  food,  or  on  the  individ- 
ual's "idiosyncrasy,"  instead  of  on  its  own  idio(t) -sin- 
crazy. 

Well,  then,  as  we  are  all  made  up  of  the  same  few 
elementary  food  constituents,  and  cannot  operate  our 
functions  on  any  other,  and,  as  markets  and  fields  offer 
us  a  plentiful  and  varied  supply  of  "eatables,"  con- 
taining both  the  force-producers  and  tissue-formers, 
there  is  no  reason  why  anybody  should  suffer  or  sicken 
for  the  lack  of  some  or  the  excess  of  others.  And 
there  is  no  reason  why  practically  the  same  diet  can 


123  Autology — Study  Thyself 

not  answer  the  purposes  of  growth,  development  and 
repair,  making  allowances,  in  the  quantity  and  pro- 
portion of  the  two  chief  classes  of  foods,  for  race  and 
climate,  sex  and  occupation,  age  and  seasons.  The 
same  light  ansv/ers.  The  same  air  answers.  The  same 
water  answers.  And  the  same  or  similar  foods  would 
answer,  were  it  not  for  "cookers"  and  adulterators. 
They  are  the  people  who  are  mostly  responsible  for 
people's  functional  demoralization. 

Real  sick  people  need  absolutely  nothing  but  light, 
air  and  water  to  live  on. 

Half-sick  people  need  just  about  half  enough  food 
to  keep  up  heat  and  force  and  flesh,  and  no  more,  until 
normal  health  is  again  restored.  Let  them  compel 
their  organism  to  utilize  the  accumulated  waste  to 
make  up  the  other  half. 

To  hear  some  (perhaps  most)  people  talk,  one  would 
never  suspect  that  nature  compels  them  to  eat  for  the 
purpose  of  supplying  material  to  maintain  "heat"  and 
"force"  and  tissues,  but,  indeed,  only  for  the  gratifica- 
tion of  a  "good  passage"  once  or  twice  a  day.  That 
may  be  a  pleasure  v/ith  some  people,  but  let  me  tell  you 
that  people  who  look  upon  that  end-issue  of  their 
eating  and  living  as  a  necessary  nuisance  have  little 
or  no  trouble  with  their  bowels.  They  never  waste 
hours  and  dollars  of  earnings  and  pleasures  in  think- 
ing and  fooling  with  their  bowels;  and  they  never 
join  the  class  who  fatten  the  stomachs  and  line  the 
pockets  of  "flush-your-colon"  shrews  or  ignoramuses. 
If  people  would  devote  their  brains  to  the  eating  and 
drinking  and  doing  that  for  which  God  or  nature  made 
man  upright  instead  of  horizontal,  the  rectal  "Punch 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  123 

and  Judy  show"  which  a  good  portion  of  our  public 
have  to  go  through  every  day  or  so  would  certainly 
be  missed  by  the  alleged  gutless  spirits  that  hover 
around  these  days. 

Poor  fishes  and  birds  and  worms,  that  know  not 
what  "colonic"  flushings  or  rubberings  mean! 

It  seems  to  me  that  really  sensible  people  v/ho  eat 
because  they  want  their  bowels  to  move  should  eat 
the  days  their  bowels  do  move  and  fast  the  days  their 
bowels  don't  move. 

This  may  sound  childish,  but  it  contains  more  com- 
mon sense,  and  dead  sure  constipation  cure,  than  any 
and  all  the  pills  and  appliances  and  treatments  in 
vogue.  Try  it,  and  you'll  see  how  mighty  soon  your 
bowels  will  get  a  move  on  them;  for  starvation  will 
appeal  to  your  brain,  and  your  brain  will  suggest 
hushing  the  qualms  of  hunger  with  water,  and  animal 
instinct  will  drive  you  to  eating  an  apple,  or  a  peach, 
or  an  orange,  or  a  bunch  of  grapes;  and  there  you 
are — a  passage — and  you're  ready  for  a  good  square 
meal.  But  do  make  it  "square  up"  with  your  stomach 
and  system,  as  hereafter  outlined. 

If  you  knew  or  felt  what  is  going  on  in  your  cells 
or  tissues,  as  you  know  or  feel  in  your  stomach  or 
bowels  or  head,  you  would  never  blamiC  "indigestion" 
or  "constipation"  or  "biliousness"  etc.,  for  any  or  all 
of  your  symptoms.  You  are  "dyspeptic"  or  "consti- 
pated" or  "bilious,"  or  anything  else,  not  because  your 
stomach  or  bowels  or  liver  is  behaving  improperly, 
but  because  you  have  been  or  are  compelling  each  and 
every  one  of  the  billions  of  cells  of  your  blood  and 
body  to  become  "dyspeptic"  or  "constipated"  or  "bil- 


124  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

ious"  or  "catarrhal"  or  "rheumatic"  or  "impotent"  or 
"fagged  out"  or  "irritable." 

Don't  treat  your  bowels  for  constipation,  or  your 
stomach  for  dyspepsia,  or  liver  for  biliousness,  or  sex 
organs  for  their  peculiar  ailments  or  behavior;  but 
do  treat  the  billions  of  cells  of  your  blood  and  tissues 
for  any  and  all  these  ailm.ents. 

That's  all ;  and  stick  to  that  if  it  takes  six  months. 
It's  worth  it,  every  bit.    More  of  this  further  on. 


THE  ORIGIN  OF  DISEASE 

Livingness  is  not  possible  without  some  sort  of  nu- 
triment. Nevertheless,  air,  water  and  foods  do  not 
originate  living  organisms,  being  only  factors  in  the 
permanence  and  reproduction  of  living  objects. 

However  varied  and  many  be  the  functions  and 
their  products  in  the  organism,  they  are  qualitatively 
one  and  may  be  unified  as  normal  or  physiologic 
health.  Hence  the  character  of  the  active  process — 
whether  in  the  lungs,  muscles,  kidneys,  nerves,  brain, 
etc. — is  chemically  one  and  the  same,  and  the  result  is 
health — but  sometimes  disease. 

Assuming  that  some  organ  is  diseased,  a  study  of 
its  function  means  the  study  of  the  action  of  the  proc- 
esses and  products  involved  in  that  particular  function. 
Therefore  the  physical  or  chemical  constituents  of  the 
cells  composing  the  designated  organ  become  the  fac- 
tors of  the  impaired  function,  or  disease.  In  other 
words,  if  we  know  what  kidney-health  means  we  can 
find  no  difBculty  in  determining  what  kidney-disease 
means.  Likewise  it  must  be  with  lung-health  and 
lung-disease,  and  so  with  every  conceivable  symptom 
or  disease. 

As  disease  presupposes  the  existence  of  a  function- 
ating organ,  and  as  function  implies  the  action  of  cell- 
constituents  in  that  organ,  the  basic  or  fundamental 

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126  Autology — Study  Thyself 

physical  and  chemical  cell-constituents  of  cell-health 
and  cell-disease  are  one  and  the  same.  Therefore  all 
symptoms  are  caused  by  the  same  factors  and  proc- 
esses which  produce  normal  cell-activities.  Accord- 
ingly we  find  that  "fever"  is  only  a  few  degrees  more 
of  the  same  molecular  or  cellular  heat  which  keeps  the 
body  at  a  normal  temperature  or  heat  of  98.6  degrees 
Fahrenheit.  Similarly  we  observe  that  "pain"  is  only 
an  exaggerated  degree  of  the  same  property  of  nerves 
which  we  call  "feeling"  or  "sensation." 

When  the  lungs  begin  to  cough  it  is  inferred  that 
"cough"  is  a  symptom  of  lung  disease,  v/hereas  scream- 
ing and  weeping  and  sneezing  are  looked  upon  as 
signs  of  health.  Barking  in  dogs  and  blushing  in  peo- 
ple are  intensely  healthy  symptoms.  Why,  then, 
should  coughing  be  considered  in  a  different  light? 
Physiologically  and  physically,  they  originate  in  the 
same  way,  and  they  are  produced  by  the  same  healthy 
factors.  Coughing  is  an  exaggerated  form  of  breath- 
ing, as  crying  is. 

Itching  may  be  a  normal  or  abnormal  sensation  or 
symptom.  And  so  with  tickling.  Acute  or  temporary 
blushing  is  considered  "normal,"  whereas  "erythema" 
or  reddened  skin  is  spoken  of  as  an  inflammation. 

It  is  evident,  therefore,  that  the  physical  or  chemical 
basis  of  normal  signs  and  abnormal  "symptoms"  is 
one,  or  that  the  same  cell-constituents  which  produce 
the  one  also  occasion  the  other. 

Therefore,  fever,  pain,  redness  or  inflammation  and 
so  forth,  as  used  in  naming  diseases,  turn  oiit  to  be 
phenomena  which  are  indicative  of  the  fact  that  dis- 
eases have  no  own  or  individual  factor-entities  apart 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  127 

from  those  which  sustain  cell-function  or  livingness  in 
general  and  in  particular.  Therefore  functions  and 
symptoms  and  diseases  are  dependent  on  the  same  cell- 
constituents,  have  the  same  unit  physical  or  chemical 
basis. 

It  is  then  evident  that  symptoms  or  diseases  are  but 
conditions  evolved  by  normal  factors  of  health  behav- 
ing with  unusual  activity  or  accumulating  in  the  sys- 
tem beyond  their  normal  quotient. 

Accordingly,  the  more  physicians  treat  symptoms  or 
diseases  as  such,  the  more  they  diverge  from  the  true 
Treatment  of  Disease. 

There  must  ever  be  a  change  and  an  exchange  in 
every  process,  as  there  is  an  action  and  a  reaction  in 
every  motion.  As  there  is  always  a  fixed  ratio  between 
the  one  and  the  other,  so  in  every  function  there  is  a 
definite  correspondence  between  the  elements  which 
effect  the  change,  or  action,  and  those  which  constitute 
the  exchange,  or  the  reaction.  Therefore  what  mate- 
rial enters  into  the  composition  of  the  organism  mus^., 
besides  furnishing  energy  and  heat,  be  evolved  into 
some  corresponding  exchange  or  reagent. 

In  one  breath,  living  is  a  simple  problem  of  addition 
and  subtraction — addition  and  subtraction  being 
really  the  only  two  functions  of  livingness,  as  well  as 
of  mathematics. 

All  organized  matter  consists  of  carbon,  hydrogen, 
nitrogen  and  oxygen.  For  these  simple  elements  to 
take  part  in  the  forming  of  the  various  "living"  liquids 
and  cells  of  our  organism  they  must  be  made  to  ac- 
quire the  particular  state  and  form  of  serum  and  blood 
corpuscles. 


128  Autolog y — Study  Thyself 

Among  these  four  elements  oxygen  is  the  most  ac- 
tive, and  appears  as  the  chief  constituent  of  the  blood, 
existing  as  absorbed  oxygen  or  as  carbon  dioxide,  or 
as  compounds  of  these  with  mineral  and  proteid 
(flesh)  bodies.  A  marked  characteristic  of  oxygen  is 
to  combine  more  particularly  with  carbon.  This  re- 
veals the  reason  of  the  character  of  our  foods,  so  rich 
in  carbon,  and  of  keeping  up  breathing  asleep  as  well 
as  awake,  in  disease  even  more  than  in  health. 

Oxygen  is  the  most  universal  and  abundant  of  the 
elements  we  appropriate  and  assimilate  through 
breathing,  drinking  and  eating,  as  well  as  that  carbon 
dioxide  constitutes  by  far  the  greatest  bulk  of  the 
waste  products  we  eliminate. 

As  the  chief  object  of  inspiration  is  to  supply  oxygen 
to  the  blood  and  tissues,  it  must  be  conceded  that  oxy- 
gen is  the  basic  factor-element  of  livingness.  Hence 
oxidation  is  the  underlying  process  of  all  living  func- 
tions, in  disease  as  in  health. 

But  we  cannot  conceive  of  oxidation  without  dis- 
oxidation,  as  we  cannot  think  of  inspiration  without 
expiration.  Nevertheless,  physiologists  have  over- 
looked this  essential  phase  of  the  double  process  of 
internal  or  cellular  respiration.  Therefore  I  have 
coined  the  word  dioxidation  to  express  the  reverse  half 
of  the  function.  Thus  we  have  inspiration  and  expira- 
tion to  express  external  or  bronchial  respiration,  and 
oxidation  and  dioxidation  to  express  internal  or  cellu- 
lar respiration.  So  that  during  inspiration  the  lungs 
take  up  oxygen  from  the  air,  and  during  oxidation  the 
cells  take  up  oxygen  from  the  blood,  whereas  during 
expiration  the  air  takes  up  carbon  dioxide  from  the 


X-Eay  photograph  of  a  living  ' '  rheumatic  hand ' '  taken  by  Dr.  E.  E.  Moras 
and  exhibited  before  the  Chicago  Medical  Society,  March  4,  1903. 


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biood  and  during  dioxidation  the  blood  takes  up  car- 
bon dioxide  from  the  cells. 

What  we  get  from  the  air,  earth  and  growing  things 
we  return  in  kind  to  the  air,  earth  and  growing  things. 
The  appropriating  and  distributing  of  these  essentials 
to  the  various  tissues  of  the  body  is  accomplished  by 
means  of  certain  functions,  and  the  eliminating  and 
returning  of  these  same  elements  to  the  different 
things  and  beings  is  also  accomplished  by  means  of 
certain  functions.  As  the  respiratory,  digestive  and 
excretory  organs  and  tracts  are  as  strictly  in  communi- 
cation with  the  outer  world  as  with  the  inner  proto- 
plasm, and  as  all  form-elements  entering  into  the 
structure  or  composition  of  the  complex  organism  are 
blood-related  and  blood-connected,  and  therefore  com- 
prise the  entire  functional  activities  involved  in  living, 
growing  and  dying,  then  it  follows  that  all  secretions 
and  excretions,  as  well  as  all  assimilations  and  elimina- 
tions, are  not  only  synchronous  but  also  identical,  or 
qualitatively  the  same  in  the  unit  of  structure,  the  cell. 
If  absorption  is  going  on  somewhere,  it  is  going  on 
everywhere;  if  secretion  occurs  somewhere,  it  occurs 
everywhere;  if  excretion  takes  place  at  any  point,  it 
happens  at  all  points.  So  with  assimilation  and  elim- 
ination. Therefore  absorption,  diffusion,  secretion,  ex- 
cretion, assimilation,  and  elimination  are  particular  to 
no  tissue,  but  are  properties  of  all  fluids  and  form-ele- 
ments, all  being  qualities  proper  of  protoplasm.  Being 
co-existent  and  co-active  in  manner  and  place,  we  may 
properly  group  all  functional  or  physiologic  activities 
and  products  in  the  one  general  class  called  the  assimi- 
lative, thus  unifying  in  the  cell  the  absorptive,  the  se- 
cretive and  the  excretive  functions,  or  processes. 


130  Autolog y— Study   Thyself 

DIOXIDATION  VERSUS  OXIDATION. 

During  inspiration  the  alveolar  cells  of  the  lungs 
rob  the  atmosphere  of  nearly  5  per  cent  oxygen.  On 
examining  the  return  gush  of  air  from  which  we  miss 
that  amount  of  oxygen  we  find  it  containing  an  excess 
over  4  per  cent  of  carbon-dioxide.  Therefore  the  way 
tissues  and  blood  are  disoxidated  is  essentially  the 
way  they  are  oxidated.  Hence  the  process  of  taking 
in  oxygen  and  that  of  taking  out  carbon-dioxide,  the 
one,  oxygen,  being  the  functional  factor  of  oxidation; 
the  other,  carbon-dioxide,  being  the  functional  factor 
of  disoxidation,  are  essentially  one  and  the  same  in  th<? 
unit  of  structure,  and  may  be  symbolized  as  cell-assim- 
ilability  by  virtue  of  which  the  structural  or  form-ele- 
ments of  the  tissues  are  enabled  to  integrate  the  elim- 
inated product,  carbon-dioxide,  as  they  did  the  oxidat- 
ing factor  of  physiologic  activity,  oxygen.  Therefore 
the  process  by  which  the  cellular  elements  are  pro- 
vided with  oxygen  and  deprived  of  the  same  is  one  of 
assimilation,  in  both  instances.  Nevertheless,  knowing 
that  oxygen  does  not  return  to  the  air-cells  as  such, 
but  as  carton-dioxide,  our  terminology  of  the  process 
by  which  this  most  important  of  functions  is  carried 
on  conveys  no  intimation  whatever  of  what  has  oc- 
curred, or  is  taking  place,  in  the  tissues  and  blood. 
Besides,  it  is  a  known  and  important  fact  that  about 
one-seventh  of  the  carbon-dioxide  expired  comes  di- 
rectly from  the  food  digested. 

Seeing  that  the  role  played  by  expiration  is  as  essen- 
tial to  healthy  function  as  that  played  by  inspiration, 
it  is  necessary  to  adopt  a  scientific  term  to  express  in 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  131 

a  well  defined  manner  the  very  special  process  which 
disposes  of  the  used-up  oxygen,  reabsorbed  and  reas- 
similated  as  carbon-dioxide  by  the  blood  plasm,  lymph 
and  form-elements,  and  conveyed  to  the  lungs  and 
other  excretory  organs  for  elimination.  Having 
adopted  the  word  oxidation  as  expressing  the  process 
by  which  oxygen  is  supplied  to  the  tissues,  we  should 
designate  that  by  which  the  tissues  are  relieved  of, 
though  to  be  exact  one  should  say  supplied  with,  car- 
bon-dioxide, as  Dioxidation.  For  the  absorption  and 
assimilation  of  carbon-dioxide  in  the  formation  of  es- 
sential secretions,  as  digestive  juices,  bile,  saliva  and 
lymph,  aside  from  the  eliminations  proper,  is  as  inher- 
ent and  important  or  vital  to  normal  cell-function  as  is 
the  absorption  and  assimilation  of  oxygen,  nitrogen 
and  hydrogen  compounds,  water,  etc.  Our  knowledge 
of  internal  respiration  therefore  demands  the  coining 
of  a  term  that  expresses  the  heretofore  unrecognized 
associative  phase  of  that  complete  function.  Hence  we 
have: 

Oxidation  as  the  absorption  and  assimilation  of  oxy- 
gen and  its  proteid  and  mineral  compounds  by  the  pro- 
toplasmic molecule;    and, 

Dioxidation  as  the  absorption  and  assimilation  of 
carbon-dioxide  and  its  proteid  and  mineral  compounds 
by  the  same  protoplasmic  molecule. 

Therefore,  just  as  oxygen  and  its  combinations  form 
the  basis  of  molecular  or  vital  (health)  activity  in  the 
function  called  oxidation,  or  internal  inspiration  or  as- 
similation, so  likewise  carbon-dioxide  and  its  combina- 
tions form  the  basis  of  molecular  or  vital  (health)  ac- 
tivity in  the  function  which  I  call  dioxidation,  or  inter- 
nal expiration  or  disassimilation. 


132  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

It  is  a  positive  fact  that  the  property  of  all  living 
cells  and  form-elements  to  treat  oxygen  and  carbon- 
dioxide  with  perfect  impartiality  underlies  all  proc- 
esses in  health  and  in  disease.  If  the  cells,  lymph  and 
blood  and  secretions  did  not  inspire  carbon-dioxide 
they  would  not  inspire  oxygen.  If  the  other  constitu- 
ents of  all  these  did  not  combine  loosely  and  firmly 
with  carbon-dioxide  they  would  not  combine  loosely 
and  firmly  with  oxygen.  It  is  this  very  exchange  of 
loosely  and  firmly  combined  gases  in  the  cells,  lymph, 
blood  and  secretions  which  is  properly  called  internal 
respiration.  But  this  property  of  the  same  tissue- 
elements  and  fluids  is  the  more  astonishing  in  that  the 
two  substances,  oxygen  and  carbon-dioxide,  are  appar- 
ently total  opposites  in  their  especial  behavior  toward 
the  very  molecular  or  physiologic  activity  which  they 
compel  and  sustain. 

We  may  therefore  particularize  our  conclusions  by 
stating  that  health,  on  the  one  hand,  is  chiefly  depend- 
ent on  and  controlled  by  the  physiologic  or  functional 
process  called  the  oxidating;  and  that  disease,  on  the 
other  hand,  is  chiefly  dependent  on  and  controlled  by 
that  equally  essential  physiologic  process  which  may 
be  called  the  dioxidating.  The  process,  or  function,  is 
therefore  reversible,  and  becomes  positive  or  negative, 
active  or  passive,  only  in  so  much  as  we  choose  to 
designate  internal  inspiration,  or  the  oxidating  proc- 
ess, the  positive  or  active,  and  so-called  internal  ex- 
piration, or  the  dioxidating,  the  negative  or  passive. 
As  both  are  synchronous  and  interchangeable  in  the 
tissues,  we  may  speak  of  both  as  one,  correlative, 
ryhthmical  process  of  living  cells,  namely,  the  oxy- 
dioxidating  (O/COj)  process. 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  133 

Conclusions :  Oxygen  is  the  essential  factor-element 
and  carbon-dioxide  is  the  essential  factor-product  of 
cell  activity.  So  long  as  the  normal  ratio  between  oxi- 
dation and  dioxidation  is  maintained,  the  normal  ratio 
between  health  and  disease,  life  and  death,  must 
be  maintained.  But  the  instant  the  limit  of  nor- 
mal variation  is  reached  between  these  two  func- 
tional principles,  there  is  established  a  state  of 
malactivity,  or  of  hyper-dioxidation,  as  will  later  be 
explained.  In  other  words,  a  variation  in  the  relative 
condition,  quantity  and  association  of  either  element 
must  be  offset  by  a  corresponding  variation  in  the 
relative  condition,  quantity  and  association  of  the 
other,  in  order  that  health  of  the  tissues  may  be  main- 
tained or  restored.  For  instance,  let  us  suppose  an 
internal  excess  of  carbon-dioxide  and,  of  course,  of  its 
specific  mineral  and  proteid  combinations,  no  matter 
whether  the  source  be  internal  or  external,  then  surely 
physiologic  malactivity  and  its  products,  disease-fac- 
tors, must  follow.  Knowing  that  one-seventh  of  the 
carbon-dioxide  expired  comes  from  the  food,  and  not 
from  the  oxygen  of  the  air,  is  it  strange  that  an  abnor- 
mal limit  of  variation  between  the  parts  and  products 
of  the  oxidating  and  dioxidating  process  is  periodically 
extablished  in  school  children,  shop  men  and  girls, 
clerks,  office  men,  professional  students,  etc.,  which  in 
the  present  state  of  public  knowledge  cannot  possibly 
be  undone  by  other  than  natural  ways — namely, 
through  diseases,  as  typhoid  fever,  scarlet  fever,  pneu- 
monia, measles,  consumption,  rheumatism,  appendici- 
tis, epilepsy,  insanity,  etc.,  which,  therefore,  from  na- 
ture's viewpoint  of  Autology,  should  be  looked  upon 
as  "health  in  disguise"  ? 


134  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

If  we  consider  health  as  the  positive  effect  of  func- 
tion, then  oxygen  is  the  positive,  active  and  essential 
factor-element  of  functional  activity;  and  carbon- 
dioxide,  the  negative,  passive  or  conditional  factor- 
element  of  the  same.  But  the  conditional  presence  of 
carbon-dioxide  being  essential  to  the  operations  of 
cellular  health,  therefore  carbon-dioxide  becomes  the 
positive,  active  and  essential  factor-element  of  func- 
tional malactivity.  In  other  words,  carbon-dioxide  is 
just  as  healthy  as  oxygen,  but  too  much  of  it  is  just  as 
unhealth}^  as  too  little  of  oxygen;  and  the  very  core 
of  every  chem.ic  molecule  of  any  disease-producing 
poison  (bacterial  or  not)  consists  of  carbon-dioxide  or 
of  some  of  its  compounds. 

Even  in  such  infectious  fevers  as  medical  authors 
believe  or  assert  are  caused  by  bacteria  or  micro- 
organisms, they  all  agree  that  suitable  conditions  must 
pre-exist  in  the  protoplasm  to  permit  or  favor  their 
activity.  And  these  "suitable  conditions"  for  the  pro- 
duction of  infectious  as  well  as  all  other  diseases,  I 
claim,  are  occasioned  by  the  accumulation,  in  the  pa- 
tient's blood  and  tissues,  of  the  products  of  dioxida- 
tion — -which  "suitable  conditions"  or  self-infected 
blood  and  tissues  I  call  Dioxidosis. 

Dioxidosis  is  therefore  the  unit  or  fundamental  cause 
of  all  diseases  as  they  form  and  exist  and  operate  in 
the  protoplasm  and  nucleus  of  the  cells  of  any  and 
every  fluid  and  tissue  and  organ  of  the  body — and, 
according  as  the  cells  or  living  matters  of  one  organ 
or  tissue  are  functionally  different  from  those  of  others, 
are  the  various  symptoms  or  disease-manifestations 
different.     For  that  reason,  dioxidosis  of  the  brain 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  135 

fluids,  or  cells,  occasions  meningitis,  or  brain  fever,  or 
epilepsy,  or  mental  derangements ;  whereas  dioxidosis 
of  the  lung  tissue  or  tubes  or  membranes  produces 
bronchitis,  or  pneumonia,  or  consumption,  or  pleurisy. 


NUTRITION  AND  MALNUTRITION. 

All  health-conditions  are  conditions  of  nutrition. 

All  disease-conditions  are  conditions  of  malnutri- 
tion. 

Health  and  disease  are,  therefore,  conditions  of  nu- 
trition. 

Nutrition  is  a  complex  function,  easy  to  understand 
but  hard  to  simplify.  It  may  be  divided  into  Respira- 
tion and  Assimilation. 

Respiration  is  divisible  into  External  Inspiration  and 
Expiration;  and  Internal  Inspiration  and  Expiration. 

External  inspiration  takes  air  (oxygen)  into  the 
lungs ;  and  external  expiration  takes  air  (carbon  diox- 
ide) out  of  the  lungs. 

Internal  inspiration  combines  oxygen  v/ith  the  cell- 
constituents  of  blood,  organs  and  tissues;  and  inter- 
nal expiration  combines  carbon  dioxide  with  the  cell- 
products  of  blood,  organs  and  tissues. 

Assimilation  is  divisible  into  external  and  internal 
Digestion. 

External  digestion  (mouth,  stomach  and  intestinal) 
consists  in  disorganizing  complex  foodstuffs  into  sim- 
pler (original)  elements  or  compounds;  v/hereas  in- 
ternal digestion   (protoplasmic  and  nuclear)   consists 


136  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

in  reorganizing  those  simpler  elements  or  compounds 
of  foodstuffs  into  complex  tissue-products  and  by- 
products. 

Owing  to  its  comprehensiveness,  this  simple  aspect 
of  the  entire  process  of  livingness  may  be  somewhat 
difficult  to  grasp. 

Let  me  try  to  simplify  the  subject  in  a  few  words. 
All  dead  and  living  fluids  and  solids  are  either  acid 
or  alkaline ; — so,  also, 

All  functions  of  the  human  body  are  either  "acid" 
or  "alkaline." 

The  saliva  is  alkaline,  and,  consequently,  mouth  di- 
gestion is  an  alkaline  function. 

Gastric  juice  is  acid,  and,  consequently,  stomach  di- 
gestion is  an  acid  function. 

Intestinal  juice  is  alkaline,  and,  consequently,  bowel 
digestion  is  an  alkaline  function. 

Blood-serum  and  lymph  and  protoplasm  are  alkaline 
substances ;  but  the  fluid  or  content  of  the  "vacuoles" 
(microscopic  stomachs)  found  in  the  hearts  of  gran- 
ular or  nuclear  protoplasm  is  acid. 

Naturally,  there  is  a  constant  change  and  exchange 
— a  chemical  wear  and  tear — going  on  between  the 
alkaline  constituents  or  species  of  the  confining  pro- 
toplasm and  the  acid  constituents  or  species  of  its  con- 
fined fluid  or  juice. 

Acid  and  alkaline  substances  disintegrate  one  an- 
other to  form  new  or  different  substances. 

The  acid  content  of  the  protoplasmic  vacuoles  or 
stomachs  maintains  its  permanence  and  individuality 
by  constantly  "digesting"  the  surrounding  alkaline 
protoplasm ;  and  the  alkaline  protoplasm  is  constantly 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  137 

endeavoring  to  preserve  its  integrity  by  "borrowing" 
from  its  blood-serum  and  lymph. 

Not  being  able  to  secure  from  the  blood  the  required 
amount  of  alkaline  proteid  or  even  inorganic  con- 
stituents, in  acute  fevers  or  diseases,  the  organism 
sacrifices  its  own  "flesh" — and  thus  usually  succeeds 
in  getting  out  of  melted  fat  and  muscle  enough  alka- 
line constituents  to  enable  it  to  again  re-establish  nor- 
mal equilibrium  between  the  acid  and  alkaline  func- 
tions of  the  body. 

Out  of  the  alkaline  serum  and  lymph  on  the  outside 
of  the  tissue-cells,  and  out  of  the  acid  serum  or  lymph 
in  the  inside  of  the  tissue-cells — does  "living"  proteid- 
substance  regenerate  and  develop  itself  and  manufac- 
ture the  various  digestive,  secretive  and  excretive  by- 
products and  waste-products  of  our  organism. 


138  Auto  logy — Study   Thyself 


"BACK  TO  NATURE!" 

"Back  to  nature!"  is  the  cry. 

Yes,  indeed,  if  you  can  back  yourself  to  the  state  of 
physical  and  mental  civilization  which  Columbus 
found  on  landing  here.  Otherwise,  don't  "back" — ^just 
"get  up"  to  nature. 

Nature  never  told  you  to  eat  what  "backers  to  na- 
ture" want  you  to  eat,  or  want  to  sell  you.  Nature 
never  told  you  to  eat  dried  or  preserved  or  canned  or 
jarred  fruit  and  stuff.  Nature  never  told  you  to  eat 
nuts  for  bread  or  with  flour;  or  on  top  of  a  meal,  or 
with  cereals,  or  fruits,  or  milk,  or  eggs. 

Yes,  indeed — don't  do  any  "backing,"  but  do  get 
up  to  your  natural  sense  and  taste  in  preparing  and 
mixing  and  eating  foods,  and  you'll  not  be  helping  to 
exploit  foolish  "fads  and  fancies"  which  necessitate 
the  everlasting  nursing  of  your  dyspepsia,  or  consti- 
pation, or  something  else. 

In  Rome,  do  as  the  Romans  do;  but  they  don't  eat 
there  as  they  do  in  London.  Therefore  don't  eat  in 
Florida  as  they  do  in  the  Klondyke;  and  don't  eat 
behind  a  desk  as  you  would  behind  a  plough. 


AUTOPATHY 

WHAT  IS  AiUTOPATHY? 

I  have  coined  the  English  word  "Autopathy"  from 
the  Greek  "Autos" — meaning  Self,  and  "Pathos" — 
meaning  Ailment.  Hence  the  keynote  and  the  key- 
stone of  Autopathy  is: 

"To  understand  your  ailments  is  to  know  hov/  to 
cure  them"  (yourself)  ;  just  as  the  keynote  and  the 
keystone  of  Autology  is:  To  understand  your  func- 
tions is  to  know  how  to  keep  well  (yourself). 

In  substance  and  scope  and  practice,  Autopathy  dif- 
fers essentially  from  all  other  methods  or  systems  or 
creeds  of  Treatment  and  Cure,  in  that  it  is  not  based 
on  any  artificial  or  theoretical  means  of  cure.  For 
Autopathy  is  based  on  a  definite  scientific  knowledge 
of  the  actual,  physical  processes  (called  function  or 
nutrition)  as  they  are  m^de  manifest  to  our  senses 
and  brain  in  each  and  every  specimen  of  "living" 
matter,  as  observed  in  the  microscopic  one-celled 
speck  of  jelly,  called  amoeba,  as  well  as  in  the  macro- 
scopic billion-celled  mass  of  jelly,  called  man.  In 
other  words,  Autopathy  is  based  on  everlasting  living 
truth.     Hence,  Autopathy  applies  to  you  and  to  me 

139 


140  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

and  to  everybody — now,  to-morrow  and  forever.  The 
name  may  change,  but  the  Conception  and  the  Truth 
never. 


PREJUDICES  IN  YOUR  WAY. 

You  own  some  prejudices  about  yourself  and  your 
ailments.  They  are  a  menace  or  a  hindrance  to  your 
health.    Let  us  get  rid  of  them. 

All  your  prejudices  amount  to  one.  They  arise  from 
the  mistaken  idea  that  your  ailment  calls  for  a  differ- 
ent remedy,  or  treatment,  or  diet,  than  somebody  else's 
ailment  calls  for; 

Or,  from  the  equally  mistaken  idea  that  you  need  a 
different  remedy,  or  treatment,  or  diet,  for  your  liver 
than  you  do  for  your  kidneys — or  for  "catarrh"  than 
you  do  for  "rheumatism" — or  for  "constipation"  than 
you  do  for  "diarrhea"; 

But  you  don't. 

Or,  that  any  "sick"  organ  or  function  anywhere  in 
man's  or  woman's  body  should  be  treated  differently 
than  any  other  "sick"  organ  or  function  anywhere  else 
in  man's  or  woman's  body.    But  it  shouldn't. 

At  first  it  may  seem  somewhat  difficult  to  see 
through  this  foundation-truth  of  Natural  Self  Treat- 
ment. Yet — think  over  it  a  minute.  You — that's 
every  bit  of  your  blood  and  organs  and  tissues — ^were 
created  with,  and  you  subsist  on,  the  same  elem.ents  of 
light,  air,  water  and  foods  that  enter  in  the  creation 
and   composition  of  other  people's  blood  and   flesh. 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  141 

And,  when  you  were  well,  Nature  kept  you  "well" 
with  the  same  blood-and-flesh  remedies  that  she  keeps 
other  people  "well"  with.  So,  likewise,  when  Nature 
makes  or  keeps  you  sick,  she  does  it  with  the  same 
blood-and-flesh  things  that  she  makes  or  keeps  other 
people  "sick"  with. 

If  Nature  spares  you  in  her  distribution  of  ailments 
it  is  not  due  to  "heredity"  or  because  you  are  lucky  or 
she  is  "partial"  to  you.  It  is  because  your  blood  re- 
ceives and  assimilates  daily  a  certain  quantity  and 
quality  of  physical  and  chemical  elements  from  your 
surroundings  and  foods  which  other  people's  blood 
does  not  partake  of.  That  which  keeps  your  physical 
and  mental  functions  in  good  and  enjoyable  working 
order  is  real  and  daily,  and  so  is  that  which  reverses 
the  condition  and  makes  you  sick. 

People  do  not  realize  that  Nature  utilizes  the  same 
identical  elements  of  air,  water,  light  and  soil  to  manu- 
facture human  blood  and  flesh  and  to  operate  mental 
and  generative  functions  as  she  does  to  make  sap  and 
pulp.  In  either  case  Nature's  raw  material  consists  of 
oxygen,  hydrogen,  carbon,  nitrogen  and  certain  soil 
minerals.  Out  of  those  elements  Nature  organizes  or 
produces  sugars,  starches  and  albumens  of  plants  and 
of  animals,  just  as  she  constructs  graphite,  coal  and 
diamonds  out  of  carbon  alone.  How  she  does  all  that 
we  don't  know.  When  we  come  to  life  we  come  ready- 
made.  All  we  realize  is  that  she  makes  every  living 
thing  with  the  few  and  simple  ingredients  named,  and 
that  the  gives  us  no  peace,  from  the  instant  we  are 
born  until  we  die,  unless  we  help  ourselves  to  the  right 
proportion  and  quality  of  those  elements.    If  we  do 


142  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

our  organs  are  sure  to  work  in  harmony  with  one  an- 
other and  our  "Ego" — that's  health.  If  we  don't  then 
our  organs  or  functions  go  on  a  strike — and  that's 
disease. 

If  in  the  air  or  foods  that  we  partake  of  there  is  a 
deficiency  of  any  of  the  above  mentioned  elements,  or 
a  disproportionate  supply  of  the  two  classes,  namely, 
the  organic  and  inorganic,  then  the  functions  of  some 
or  of  all  of  the  body  organs  become  impaired  or  per- 
verted, constituting  sickness. 


THE  TWIN-NESS  OF  BLOOD. 

The  blood  that  goes  to  any  and  all  of  your  organs 
and  tissues  is  one^ — and  is  called  arterial.  The  blood 
that  comes  from  any  and  all  of  your  organs  and  tis- 
sues is  also  onc"^ — and  is  called  venous. 

Now —  the  two  are  alike,  except  in  color — the  ven- 
ous blood  being  bluer  and  the  arterial  being  redder. 
The  "venous"  owes  its  bluish  color  to  the  fact  that  it 
contains  more  carbonic  acid  gas,  dissolved  in  its  serum 
and  combined  with  the  "living"  substance  of  its  red 
corpuscles,  than  the  arterial  does. 

Remember,  therefore,  that  the  only  real  difference 
between  your  venous  or  "bad"  blood  and  your  arterial 
or  "good"  blood  is  that  the  venous  or  "bad"  contains 
more  carbonic  acid  gas,  while  the  arterial  or  "good" 
contains  more  oxygen  gas.  In  a  word,  arterial  blood 
is  oxygenated — whereas  venous  blood  is  carbonized. 

"Oxygenated"  means  that  the  blood  has  absorbed 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  143 

and  combined  with  oxygen;  and  "carbonized"  means 
that  it  has  absorbed  and  combined  with  carbonic  acid 
gas. 

And,  remember,  that  the  only  real  difference  be- 
tween "healthy"  and  "sickly"  organs  or  tissues  is  that 
healthy  flesh  is  "raised  on"  oxygenated  red  corpuscles, 
whereas  sickly  flesh  is  "raised  on"  carbonized  red  cor- 
puscles— or  venous  blood.  All  new  born  "full-term"' 
babies  are  made  up  of  identically  the  same  "brand"  of 
oxygenated  flesh  and  brain  matter — and  "carboniza- 
tion," or  deterioration,  or  degeneration  only  begins 
when  or  after  the  baby  takes  its  first  breath.  Question 
this  all  you  want;  theorize  as  you  please — I  have 
watched  and  watched  Nature  in  this  regard  in  baby 
after  baby,  in  the  same  families  and  in  different  fami- 
lies, under  every  conceivable  condition  of  human  ex- 
istence— and  I  must  say  that  baby  is  never  affected 
prenatally  or  postnatally  by  anything  else  whatsoever 
than  the  purely  physical  elements  derived  by  the 
mother  from  air,  water  and  foods — before  her  child's 
birth — and  by  the  child  itself  from  air,  water  and 
foods — after  its  birth. 


PERNICIOUS   TEACHINGS   AND   THINKINGS. 

The  most  pernicious  teaching  going  the  rounds  of 
magazine  and  newspaper  scribblers,  and  the  one,  above 
all  others,  which  tends  most  to  convert  the  unborn  and 
born  child's  brains  into  cream-puffs — is  the  revival  of 
the  old-time  "prenatal"  diddle.     My  cure  for  that  is 


144  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

to  ask  the  "expectant"  mother  to  recitt  the  Lord's 
Prayer — and  to  repeat  and  repeat  the  words,  "Give  us 
our  daily  bread"  until  the  word  "bread"  is  engraved 
in  her  brain  and  lungs  and  stomach  and  blood  and 
womb  as  meaning  God's  air,  water  and  foods.  Then, 
and  then  only,  shall  "God's  will  be  done." 

Beginning  with  conception  and  running  through 
kindergarten  up  into  higher  education  there  exists  in 
the  minds  of  teachers  and  writers  the  misconception 
that  brains  need  "mental"  foods.  The  fact  is  that  the 
brain  manufactures  mental  foods,  but  it  cannot  live  or 
produce  on  that  variety  of  drinks  or  eatables.  And 
just  as  we  cannot  subsist  or  grow  on  what  others  elim- 
inate, so  you  must  not  expect  children's  brains  to  de- 
velop into  anything  but  sapid  mental  cauliflowers  if 
you  feed  them  on  the  by-products  or  waste-thoughts  of 
others. 

What  a  stupendous  joke  it  is  to  imagine  that  a 
mother  can  think  a  future  inheritance  into  and  through 
a  child's  skull — when  she,  and  no  pov/er  on  earth  or  in 
heaven,  can  think  a  mere  breath  of  air,  or  swallow  of 
water  or  bite  to  eat  into  her  own  lungs  or  mouth  or 
stomach — or  her  unborn  child's.  Crazy!  that's  the 
only  epithet  that  fits  such  nonsense,  as  is  believed  and 
preached  nowadays. 

Forget  it — and  learn  your  A.  W.  F.  of  living,  grow- 
ing and  developing  your  own  and  your  children's  only 
inheritance,  namely  Air,  Water,  Food.  And  return  to 
the  question  of  our  "healthy"  and  "sickly"  tissues. 

How  can  you  expect  an  organ  or  tissue  to  behave 
"right,"  or  to  produce  normal  products  when  you  com- 
pel its  cells  to  live  on  adulterated  air  and  liquids  and 


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eatables?  A'  man  with  a  "chew"  in  his  mouth  or 
"tope"  in  his  head  doesn't  spit  out  pure,  unadulterated 
saliva — does  he?  Well — how  can  stomachs,  or  livers, 
or  lungs,  or  wombs,  or  nerves,  or  muscles — or  other 
organs  and  tissues — behave  "decent"  or  produce 
"healthy"  flesh  and  juices  when  fed  or  stuffed  with  in- 
decent or  unwholesome  air,  liquids  and  foods?  They 
can't — and  won't.  Not  until  the  impurities  and  adul- 
terations are  removed  from  your  blood  and  body  and 
from  what  gets  inside  of  your  lungs  and  stomach.  Not 
before,  and  never  otherwise.  You  may  try  and  experi- 
ment with  all  the  "pills  or  physics,"  "tonics  or  stimu- 
lants," "flushings"  or  other  nasty  make-shifts — but 
you  will  have  to  come  back  to  Nature's  "A.  W.  F."  of 
Livingness  and  Autopathy — or  else  pay  your  fine  for 
fiddling  with  your  solid  or  hollow  tissues. 

What  you  want  to  do  is  to  remove  the  useless  and 
harmful  material  from  your  system  and  from  your  sur- 
roundings and  from  your  diet.  Then  you  will  find  that 
your  organs  and  tissues  possess  all  the  tone  and  vital- 
ity and  "know-how"  to  repair  and  renew  youthfulness, 
usefulness  and  happiness  of  body  and  mind.  Such  is 
the  object  and  such  is  the  achievement  of  Autopathy. 

The  reason  why  carbonized  material  settles  in,  or 
picks  out,  a  different  organ  or  tissue  in  different  per- 
sons is  because  different  individuals  have  different 
habits,  occupations,  ages,  pleasures  and  environments. 

If  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave  we  all  lived  in  iden- 
tically the  same  environments  and  drank  and  ate  and 
behaved  exactly  alike  in  every  detail  and  respect  we 
should  all  develop  the  same  ailments  in  the  same  organ 
or  tissue,  or  none  at  all. 

Now,  then,  why  not  offset  that  difference  or  ward  off 


146  Autology— Study  Thyself 

those  dangers  to  which  some  of  us  are  exposed  by 
adapting  ourselves  to  our  environments,  or  by  adapt- 
ing our  environments  to  ourselves  when  and  where 
convenient  or  practicable?  That's  what  I  call  the  Doc- 
trine of  Common  Sense  in  health  and  in  sickness. 
That's  Autopathy  again. 

By  so  doing  you  can  escape  sickness,  or,  having  ac- 
quired it,  you  can  regain  and  retain  health  once  more. 
I  mean  that.  But  I  can't  do  it  all  for  you ;  you  have 
to  do  some  of  it  for  yourself.  I  tell  you  how  and  of- 
fer you  the  knowledge  and  the  wherewith.  More  I 
cannot  do.  But  you  can.  So — ^bear  this  in  mind — 
"If  you  do  not  get  well  it  is  your  own  fault,  and 
whether  that  fault  is  a  'lapse'  of  judgment  or  a  lack  of 
'backbone'  willingness  on  your  part  is  'material'  to  no 
one  so  much  as  to  your  own  self." 

Having  made  the  first  right  step  toward  getting  well, 
it  behooves  you  to  make  the  second  and  the  third,  and 
the  hundredth,  if  necessary.  Otherwise  take  my  ad- 
vice: Save  your  money  and  "grin  and  bear  it."  At 
any  rate,  you  can't  buy  sickness  or  unhappiness  here. 
For  nowhere  and  nohow  do  I  atune  my  teachings  to 
the  foibles  or  prejudices  of  folk  to  part  them  from  their 
money. 


AS  REGARDS  "LAPSES"  OF  JUDGMENT 

For  instance,  you  wear  less  and  lighter  and  different 
clothes  in  summer  than  in  winter.  Why  not  eat  less 
and  lighter  and  different  foods  in  summer  than  in  win- 
ter?    In  summer  when  the  thermometer  is  80  degrees 


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in  the  "shade"  of  your  rooms,  or  office,  or  store  you 
"peel  off"  heavy  underwear  and  overwear.  Why  don't 
you  do  it  in  the  winter-tinae  when  you  keep  the  ther- 
mometer at  80  degrees  in  the  "shade"  of  your  rooms, 
or  office,  or  shop — and  a  thousand  degrees  fouler  to 
boot? 

That's  different,  you  say.  Indeed,  it  is.  But  the 
difference  is  not  where  you  think  it  is.  It's  simply  be- 
cause you  think  no  deeper  than  you  feel,  and  you  feel 
only  skin-deep.  You'll  see  the  point  in  a  moment.  I 
don't  like  to  "hurt"  feelings,  but  I  must  drive  "truths 
and  sense"  home  to  you  or  else  miss  my  aim,  and  that's 
your  cure  or  recovery. 

You  get  more  air  and  purer  air  in  summer  than  you 
do  in  winter,  and  yet  you  need  lots  more  air  and  purer 
air  in  winter  than  you  do  in  summer.  Why  not  get 
it,  night  and  day?  It's  cheaper  than  heated,  foul  air, 
isn't  it? 

In  the  cold  seasons  your  blood  and  tissues  and  kid- 
neys need  more  water  for  purposes  of  dissolving  and 
purifying  and  rinsing  out  useless  material  and  waste- 
poisons  than  they  do  in  the  warm  weather,  and  yet  are 
you  not  often  stingy  about  the  amount  you  give  your 
body  in  the  cold  weather? 

You  probably  bathe  more  and  oftener  in  summer 
than  you  do  in  winter,  and  yet  your  body  and  skin  need 
bathing  more  and  oftener  in  winter. 

You  probably  bestir  yourself  more  around  and  away 
from  the  house  in  summer,  and  yet  your  lungs  and 
blood  and  nerves  and  muscles  want  more  bestirring 
in  winter  than  in  summer. 

For  the  above  reasons  and  scores  of  others  like  them 


148  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

your  system  accumulates  a  large  excess  of  carbonized 
instead  of  oxygenated  material,  which  upsets  or  im- 
pairs some  particular  function,  or  affects  some  par- 
ticular organ  or  tissue  more  than  some  other,  which 
"introduces"  itself  to  you  as  "biliousness,"  or  "ca- 
tarrh," or  "rheumatism,"  or  "neuralgia,"  or  "dyspep- 
sia." or  "constipation,"  or  "asthma,"  or  "headaches," 
or  this,  that  and  the  other. 

It's  all  one  and  the  same  cause  or  "bunch"  of  causes, 
and  it's  all  one  and  the  same  result  or  "bunch"  of  re- 
sults. 

The  reason  for  calling  one  ailment  "dyspepsia,"  an- 
other "constipation,"  another  "kidney  disease,"  an- 
other "biliousness,"  another  "female  troubles,"  another 
"loss  of  vital  power,"  another  "catarrh,"  or  "rheuma- 
tism," or  "pleurisy,"  or  "asthma,"  others  "measles," 
"scarlet  fever,"  "sore  throat,"  "pneumonia,"  "typhoid 
fever,"  "brain  fever,"  "appendicitis,"  and  so  on  and  so 
forth,  is  not  because  of  any  real  difference  in  the  na- 
ture of  the  poison  which  disturbs  or  affects  any  par- 
ticular organ  or  tissue  but  it  is  because  each  and  every 
organ  and  tissue  of  the  body  has  a  way  of  its  own  of 
feeling  and  behaving  and  talking  when  it's  sick  or 
"out  of  sorts." 

A  kidney  can't  cough  and  a  lung  can't  urinate;  a 
brain  can't  vomit  and  a  stomach  can't  think,  and  so  on 
and  so  forth. 

Again,  I  repeat,  it's  all  one  and  the  same  cause — car- 
bonized blood  and  carbonized  organs  and  tissues.  And 
it's  all  one  and  the  same  result — impaired  or  perverted 
function  of  your  brain  or  nerves,  lungs  or  tubes,  stom- 


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ach  or  bowels,  liver  or  kidneys,  joints  or  muscles,  etc., 
etc. 

Consequently,  if  it's  all  the  one  and  same  blood  and 
tissue  condition  and  the  one  and  same  blood  and  tissue 
result,  then  it  all  calls  for  the  one  and  same  natural 
remedies.    Doesn't  it? 

So,  then,  no  matter  what  occupation  you  follow,  or 
how  different  seem  your  symptoms  or  ailments  from 
those  of  others — man,  woman  or  child — remember  al- 
ways that  the  real  difference  is  not  in  the  cause  of 
your  symptoms  or  disease,  but  that  it  is  in  the  struc- 
ture (texture)  and  function  (workings)  of  the  organ 
or  tissue  most  affected  or  impaired  by  the  compounds 
circulating  in  your  body. 

That's  why  a  "dyspeptic"  may  have  either  constipa- 
tion or  diarrhea. 

That's  why  a  person  with  the  best  of  digestion  may 
be  bilious  or  rheumatic,  or  have  catarrh  of  the  nose, 
or  throat,  or  bladder,  or  womb,  etc. 

I  cannot  too  strongly  impress  on  your  mind  this  one 
foundation-principle  of  Natural  Self  Treatment™ 
namely,  that  the  essential  cause  or  blood  and  flesh  con- 
dition which  sickens  one  organ  or  tissue,  in  one  per- 
son, is  exactly  the  same  which  sickens  another  organ 
or  tissue  in  another  person.  The  actual  or  real  differ- 
ence is  not  in  the  ailments  or  sickness,  but  it  is  in  the 
difference  of  the  organs  or  tissues  involved  or  affected 
and  in  the  environm.ents  in  which  you  live  and  toil  and 
play  and  think. 

When  once  you  get  that  "truth  and  sense"  fixed  in 
your  brain  you  will  quit  trying  to  treat  your  head  or 
nose,  or  stomach  or  bowels,  or  liver  or  kidneys,  or 


I50  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

fevers  or  colds,  etc.,  etc.,  but  you  will  begin  to  treat 
the  "sound"  or  healthy  tissues  of  your  body  in  order  to 
enable  your  system  to  throw  off  the  "objectionables" 
and  to  repair  the  "damages,"  thus  re-establishing 
equilibrium.  But  to  achieve  that  result  it  is  essential 
to  eradicate  from  your  mind  the  notion  that  your  real 
ailment,  or  its  real  cause,  is  constipation,  or  indiges- 
tion, or  catarrh,  or  rheumatism,  or  sick  head,  or  bilious- 
ness, or  nervous  breakdown,  or  impaired  vitality,  or 
"special"  troubles,  or  anything  which  bears  a  "sick" 
name. 

And  the  very  first  truth  that  you  must  plant  and 
cultivate  in  its  stead  is  that  the  symptoms  you  feel  or 
complain  of  are  only  signs,  or  words,  or  dialects,  used 
by  the  particular  organs  or  tissues  which  bear  the 
brunt  of  the  internal  derangement  or  take  up  the  job 
of  disposing  of  the  deleterious  products  that  circulate 
in  your  blood  and  permeate  your  tissues. 

Therefore,  no  matter  what  or  where  it  ails  you,  the 
internal  sick-cause  is  one  and  the  same  in  your  blood. 
What  started  it  and  where  it  started  or  what  comes 
from  it  and  where  it  gets  out  of  makes  no  difference 
now  to  your  blood  and  flesh.  But  it  does  to  you,  for 
it's  there — in  you;  and  it's  got  to  get  out  of  there — 
out  of  you,  or  take  you  along  face  up. 

Stop  feeding  your  body  as  if  it  were  a  "poison  fac- 
tory" and  begin  to  feed  it  the  natural  remedies  it  needs 
and  craves,  namely,  light,  air,  water,  fruits,  vegetables 
and  other  appropriate  foods,  work,  exercise,  cleanli- 
ness, pleasures  and  sleep.  The  beneficial  effects  and 
noticeable  results  will  then  soon  astonish  you  and 
your  friends.     However,  do  not  look  for  miracles  in 


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one  day  or  one  week.  It  took  you  longer  than  that 
to  harness  your  ailment.  It  won't  take  nearly  so 
long  to  unharness  it,  but  it'll  take  a  while,  and  you 
know  why.  Not  only  has  the  "poison"  soaked  your 
tissues,  but  it  has  filled  and  dyed  their  very  meshes 
and  fibers  as  filth  or  coloring  matter  does  a  sponge. 
You  know  what  kind  of  a  job  it  is  to  make  a  soiled 
sponge  clean  and  sweet  again,  and  yet  you  can  get  at 
it  in  any  number  of  ways  and  with  any  number  of 
things,  in  and  with  which  you  cannot  the  thousands 
of  billions  of  microscopic  cell-sponges  of  your  organs 
and  tissues.  Remember  that,  please,  before  passing 
judgment  on  Autopathy,  or  "throwing  up  the  sponge." 


L       THE  SICKLIEST  OF  ALL  PREJUDICES. 

The  old  saying,  "One  man's  food  is  another  man's 
poison,"  is  misleading.  Is  air  one  man's  food  and  an- 
other man's  poison?  Is  light?  Is  water?  Is  bread? 
Is  egg?    Is  meat?     Is  fruit? 

I  know  just  what  you  want  to  say — that  some  food 
"disagrees"  with  you  and  "agrees"  with  somebody 
else.  Even  that  I  deny,  in  the  sense  that  you  mean  by 
"you."  If  by  "you"  you  mean  the  "sickly"  or 
"poisoned"  or  "ailing"  organs  or  tissues  of  your  body, 
then  I  quite  agree  with  that  "man" — kind  of  you. 
But  if  by  "you"  you  mean  the  "you"  that  still  remains 
sane  and  sound  of  mind  and  body,  then  I  quite  dis- 
agree with  that  "man" — kind  of  you.  And  here  are  my 
reasons  why; 


152  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

One  man's  food  is  never  another  man's  poison. 
Never!  Never!  But  it  can  be  made  so  in  the  mixing 
on  the  stove,  or  in  your  stomach,  or  in  the  "canning" 
and  "preserving"  and  "adulterating." 

"Morbid"  or  sickly  constituents  of  one  man's  blood 
and  organs  and  juices  will  not  combine  with  the  nor- 
mal or  "healthy"  constituents  of  a  given  food  to  pro- 
duce the  same  brand  of  products  that  the  normal  or 
healthy  constituents  of  another  man's  blood  and  or- 
gans and  juices  will. 

For  no  other  reason  than  that  oxygen  will  combine 
with  carbon  to  produce  a  most  poisonous  blood  and 
flesh  compound,  namely,  carbonic  acid  gas;  whereas 
the  very  same  oxygen  will  combine  with  hydrogen  to 
produce  the  most  healthful  blood  and  flesh  compound, 
namely,  water.  Would  you,  therefore,  say  that  oxygen 
is  one  man's  food  and  another  man's  poison?  Or  that 
carbon  is?  No;  for  not  only  is  health  impossible  but 
life  itself  is  unmaintainable  without  oxygen  and  car- 
bon in  both  the  form  of  "food"  and  of  "poison." 

Therefore,  the  element  of  "poison"  is  not  found  in 
natural  foods,  but  in  the  manner  of  mixing  foods;  or 
in  the  individual's  stomach  or  blood.  And  the  sooner 
you  settle  that  question  between  yourself  and  all  nat- 
ural foods,  as  pure  air  and  water  and  fruits  and  vege- 
tables, etc.,  the  better  for  your  health  and  happiness 
and  longevity. 

You  do  not  "mind"  mixing  sugar  and  salt  and  vine- 
gar with  your  gastric  juice  in  your  stomach,  but  you 
won't  let  any  one  mix  those  three  with  coffee  or  tea  in 
your  cup.  You  see,  the  stomach  doesn't  taste,  but  it 
knows,  the  difference;  and  it  kicks,  to  your  past  or 
present  or  future  sorrow. 


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Improper  mixtures  of  good  and  bad  air  and  drinks 
and  "seasonings"  produce  poisonous  compounds  in  the 
system,  of  which  the  system  must  rid  itself  either  sud- 
denly and  rapidly  (as  in  fevers)  or  gradually  and  slow- 
ly (as  in  "catarrh,"  or  "rheumatism,"  or  "Bright's  dis- 
ease," or  other  "chronic  ailments."). 

If  you  saturate  your  blood  and  tissues  with  a 
"brand"  of  overheated  and  foul  air  and  pass  out  into 
one  of  cool  and  pure  air,  of  course  the  cool  and  pure 
air  will  dislodge  the  hot  and  foul  air  and  you  will  com- 
plain of  a  "cold,"  or  "rheumatism,"  or  "catarrh,"  or 
"neuralgia,"  etc.,  but  not  because  cold  or  pure  air  dis- 
agrees with  or  "sickens"  you.  Just  the  reverse.  It 
agrees  with  you,  but  disagrees  with  your  "internal"  at- 
mosphere. If  you  live  for  months  or  years  on  highly 
seasoned  meats,  sausages,  cheese  and  canned  goods, 
or  on  vinegar  and  pickles,  preserves  and  pastries,  etc., 
and  then  eat  fresh  or  raw  fruits  and  vegetables,  your 
digestive  or  eliminative  apparatus  will  let  you  know 
that  it  is  "moving"  or  house-cleaning  season  in  your 
system.  But  not  because  fresh  fruits  and  vegetables 
don't  "agree"  with  you.  Just  the  reverse.  They  agree 
with  you,  but  disagree  with  your  stale  or  adulterated 
juices  and  blood. 

You  will  probably  understand  this  better  when  Au- 
topathy  and  your  changed  diet  get  in  their  work — not 
that  you  will  be  made  sicker  than  you  are,  but  there's 
going  to  be  some  "arguing"  somewhere  between  the 
new  and  good  and  the  old  and  bad,  so  that  your  breath, 
or  bowels,  or  kidne3'S,  or  liver,  or  head,  or  all,  will  as- 
sist in  the  "renovating"  process. 

The  one  universal  poison  which  has  accumulated 


154  Autolog y — Study   Thyself 

most  in  your  stomach,  or  bowels,  or  liver,  or  head,  or 
chest,  or  nerves,  or  muscles,  or  pelvic  organs,  or  any- 
where, will  have  to  "move  out" — that's  all.  And  some 
part  or  parts  will  miss  it.  Because  all  body  poisons 
act  as  irritants,  and  irritants  act  as  stimulants — just 
as  alcohol  or  drugs  do.  Hence,  you  may  feel  gener- 
ally upset  for  a  day  or  so,  or  fancy  that  you  feel  weaker 
and  listless,  or  the  "discharge"  may  increase,  or  you 
may  feel  "tiptop"  for  the  first  few  days  and  then  have 
an  "off  day."  And  that  may  repeat  itself  before  you 
strike  health's  equilibrium.  It  all  depends  on  the  age 
and  location  of  your  trouble  and  on  how  accurately  you 
follow  the  treatment.  Eventually  it  makes  no  differ- 
ence, for  the  same  good  results  finally  predominate  in 
every  case.  It  stands  to  reason,  of  course,  that  the 
closer  you  observe  instructions,  the  less  likely  you  are 
to  experience  any  "upset"  or  "unpleasantness"  any- 
where, and  the  sooner  and  surer  you  obtain  the  desired 
benefit.  Even  ordinary  "dusting"  disturbs  physical 
and  mental  fixtures  or  ornaments  in  a  room.  So  don't 
fret  for  "nothings."  Your  reward  will  come  in  soon 
feeling  and  looking  as  you  have  been  longing  for. 

Again,  I  say,  don't  cater  to  your  symptoms  or  ail- 
ments, but  do  cater  to  your  lungs  and  blood  and  tis- 
sues. 

If  you  give  Autopathy  even  but  a  fraction  of  the 
"show"  that  you  have  given  to  your  ailments  or  trou- 
bles, you'll  soon  be  a  happy  mortal  again. 


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PREJUDICES  ABOUT  DIGESTION. 

The  chief  function  of  your  Stomach  is  to  live  and 
enjoy  living.  Maybe  that's  you,  but  really  no  more 
"you"  than  any  of  your  other  organs.  For  the  stom- 
ach has  to  live  for  and  in  harmony  with  the  other  or- 
gans of  your  body.  In  return  for  your  stomach's  self- 
ishness or  thoughtlessness  all  the  other  organs  of  your 
body  do  likewise  or  have  a  way  of  "getting  even." 
Above  the  "community  of  interest"  that  exists  between 
all  your  functions  there  is  in  every  drop  of  your  blood 
and  molecule  of  your  flesh  the  unsquelchable  impulses 
of  the  laws  of  physical  or  chemical  affinity  or  tension. 

Every  cell  has  got  to  live  and  let  live  or  you  stand 
the  consequences. 

The  main  function  of  the  stomach  is  supposed  to  be 
"digestion."  Really  a  very  unimportant  phase  of  that 
function,  the  digestive,  takes  place  in  your  stomach. 
Digestion  proper  takes  place  inside  of  tiny  microscopic 
cavities  called  "vacuoles"  that  exist  in  the  hearts  of 
nuclei  of  the  billion  of  cells  that  compose  every  organ 
and  tissue — brain  and  all.  These  millions  and  millions 
of  little  spaces  (vacuoles)  are  your  real  stomachs. 
They  are  always  filled  with  digestive  juice,  and  are  the 
stomachs  and  mouths  that  cry  out  with  hunger,  as 
they  are  the  ones  which  empty  out  into  your  blood 
and  back  to  your  big  stomach  the  improper  or  injurious 
things  which  you  drink  or  swallow. 

When  your  stomach  rebels  or  reminds  you  that 
something  is  wrong  with  your  digestion  don't  think  of 
the  pouch  inside  of  your  abdomen,  but  think  of  the 
multitude  of  little  vacuoles  or  stomachs  contained  in 


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all  your  organs  and  tissues  as  well  as  of  those  which 
exist  inside  of  the  pepsin  manufacturing  cells  of  the 
lining  mucous  membrane  of  your  visible  stomach. 

To  avoid  any  mistake  in  gaining  accurate  knowledge 
of  what's  wrong  with  your  stomach  always  think  of  it 
inside  out,  bearing  in  mind  that  the  blood  and  lymph 
which  feeds  and  dumps  material  into  your  stomach 
comes  from  what  you  are  in  the  habit  of  thinking  is 
the  outside  when  really  it  is  the  fleshy  inside. 

Another  mistaken  idea  is  the  belief  that  the  stomach 
or  gastric  juice  is  "the"  digestive  juice.  The  fact  is 
that  there  exist  in  the  body  as  many  essential  digestive 
juices  as  there  are  vital  organs  or  tissues.  Even  bone- 
ceils  possess  their  special  digestive  juice.  Otherwise 
no  organ  or  tissue  could  grow  or  reproduce. 

The  stomach  is  not  a  bit  particular  as  to  what  kind 
of  juice  it  manufactures.  It  had  just  as  soon  turn  out 
slime  or  catarrhal  or  bilious  discharge  as  pepsin  or  gas- 
tric juice.  So  also  with  the  billions  of  microscopic 
vacuole-stomachs  all  over  your  body. 

Gastric  juice  is  only  one  of  the  by-products  of  the 
glandular  cell-stomachs  which  constitute  the  walls  of 
your  abdominal  stomach,  just  as  brain  fluid  or  juice  is 
one  of  the  by-products  of  the  cell-stomachs  of  your 
brain.  If  you  get  that  clearly  pictured  in  your  mind 
you  will  readily  understand  the  origin  or  causes  of 
headaches  and  countless  other  symptoms. 

From  the  serum  and  lymph  which  blood  vessels  and 
lymphatics  bring  their  way,  the  stomach  cells  pick  out 
what  they  need  to  replace  the  loss  or  waste  incident 
to  living  and  working.  During  this  process,  which  is 
one  of  internal  digestion  and  assimilation,  there  hap- 


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pens  to  be  formed  a  number  of  by-products,  the  three 
most  important  of  which  are  pepsin,  hydrochloric  acid 
and  mucus. 

The  stomach  keeps  alive  and  in  working  condition 
only  by  constantly  replenishing  its  own  cellular  mate- 
rial or  protoplasm,  by  constantly  manufacturing  stom- 
ach cells.  In  other  words,  by  each  stomach  cell  digest- 
ing what  the  blood  brings  it  into  something  that  its 
protoplasm  and  nucleus  can  transform  into  protoplasm 
and  nucleus  exactly  like  itself.  If  the  blood  contains 
the  proper  constituents  the  stomach  cells  can  never 
make  a  mistake,  and  no  such  thing  as  stomach  trouble 
is  possible.  But  if  the  blood  doesn't,  all  the  gastric 
juices  and  pepsins  and  digestive  tablets  and  moonshine 
won't  help  or  mend  matters. 

If  you  have  any  sort  of  stomach  indigestion  or  ail- 
ment do  not  let  your  mind  ruminate  in  your  big  gastric 
cavity,  but  lead  it  into  the  invisible  digestive  spaces 
of  the  glandular  cells  of  your  stomach-wall,  into  the 
stomach's  feelable  flesh  not  its  emptiness. 

You  may  think  that  your  stomach  gets  plenty  to  eat 
and  work  with  when  it  really  doesn't  get  one-tenth 
enough,  simply  because  the  stomach  never  helps  itself 
with  the  drinks  and  foods  that  you  swallow.  The 
stomach  does  not  even  absorb  water,  water  being 
taken  up  from  the  intestines.  The  nourishment  that 
is  intended  for  the  stomach  reaches  it  only  through  the 
roundabout  way  of  the  general  circulation,  having  to 
pass  through  the  heart  into  the  lungs  and  back  through 
the  heart  into  the  arteries  and  finally  reach  the  invis- 
ible capillaries  in  the  substance  of  the  walls  of  the 
stomach.    Therefore  it  is  a  long  wait  and  way  from 


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the  time  and  place  that  food  is  swallowed  to  the  time 
and  place  when  and  where  the  vital  cells  of  your  stom- 
ach get  a  chance  to  help  themselves. 

Appetite  or  the  sensation  of  hunger  is  looked  upon 
as  a  sign  of  a  healthy  stomach.  Nevertheless  many 
people  with  chronic  indigestion  or  catarrh  of  the  stom- 
ach have  excellent  appetites.  Their  appetite  is  there- 
fore  as  m.uch  a  symptom  of  disease  as  a  sign  of  health. 
This  would  be  the  case  if  the  longing  or  craving  for 
food  was  really  a  feeling  limited  to  the  stomach.  Appe- 
tite or  hunger  as  well  as  thirst  is  a  sensation  or  de- 
mand announced  by  every  atom  of  your  blood  and 
body.  The  craving  or  demand  may  be  natural  or  arti- 
ficial, depending  upon  what  you  have  accustomed  the 
billions  of  vacuole-stomachs  to.  Your  skin  and  mus- 
cles and  fat  and  bones  and  organs  do  not  care  whether 
or  not  your  stomach  is  in  working  order — they  all  dis- 
patch their  "orders"  to  your  brain,  which  translates 
the  messages  into  one  word, — hunger  or  appetite.  And 
you  eat.  If  your  stomach  bothers  you  afterward  it  is 
not  to  blame.  The  trouble  is  started  by  some  of  the 
recently  eaten  foods  crowding  some  of  the  fermenting 
chyle  (partly  digested  foods)  into  the  blood  and  the 
blood  into  the  tissue-cells,  by  which  it  is  refused  in 
part  or  whole  as  not  being  appropriate  for  their  pur- 
poses. The  stomach  glands  also  have  no  use  for  it  and 
either  reject  it  or  transform  it  into  mucus  or  slime. 
There  is  then  a  damming  back  of  the  blood  in  the  gen- 
eral circulation  against  the  inflow  of  the  new  partly 
digested  food  from  the  lymphatics  and  lacteals  of  the 
small  intestines.  As  a  result  of  this  there  occurs  stag- 
nation of  partly  digested  and  non-digested  foods  in  the 


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stomach  and  bowels,  followed  by  decomposition  and 
fermentation — ^which  are  the  immediate  and  exciting 
causes  of  the  numerous  symptoms  usually  laid  at  the 
stomach's  door;  when  actually  the  stomach  isn't  a 
particle  to  blame. 

Do  not  fancy  that  you  or  anybody  else  can  teach  your 
stomach  anything.  It  was  made  long  before  you  or 
others  began  to  "think"  or  mentalize  into  it.  It  still 
knows  what  it  is  made  for  and  will  keep  telling  you, 
with  pain  and  sorrow  or  ease  and  pleasure,  as  long  as 
you  feed  to  please  your  taste  or  to  make  up  for  your 
waste. 

When  your  stomach  rebels  or  goes  on  a  strike,  just 
politely  ask  her  "What's  the  matter?"  Don't  tease  her 
with  more  food — quit  nagging  her.  Don't  ask  a  gas- 
tronomaniac  specialist  or  politician,  for  he's  apt  to  look 
upon  your  stomach  pouch  as  upon  your  wallet  as  be- 
ing the  whole  of  YOU — and  all  the  rest  of  your  per- 
son (brain  and  mind  particularly)  as  an  appendix  to 
your  belly — just  as  gynecologists  see  in  womenkind 
a  motley  potpourri  of  ovarian  and  uterine  humpty- 
dumpties.  If  you'd  respectfully  ask  your  stomach 
"What's  wrong?" — it  would  refer  you  to  your  own 
Brain :  Who  would  say,  speaking  for  the  crowd  of  all 
your  organs,  "We're  overcrowded  or  rather  drowning 
in  a  mess  of  foul  and  souring  waste  stuffs  and  you're 
'mixing'  your  air  and  drinks  too  foolishly  and  are  not 
giving  your  blood  enough  natural  detoxicating  con- 
stituents to  enable  us  to  neutralize  and  convert  these 
poisons  into  harmless  compounds.  Do,  please,  give  us 
less  of  some  of  the  things  and  more  of  other  things  that 
you  and  your  advisers  won't  let  us  have  by  way  of 


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your  lungs  and  stomach.  If  you'll  do  that  for  us,  we'll 
gladly  do  the  rest— and  neither  your  stomach  nor  any 
bit  of  you  will  ever  again  cause  you  pain  or  sorrow — 
and  when  we  get  all  tired  and  worn  out  from  working 
and  enjoying  livingness  we'll  quit  quite  suddenly,  but 
only  when  you've  seen  and  felt  and  tasted  all  there  is 
to  see  and  feel  and  taste  in  this  world." 

As  you  now  realize,  there  is,  in  all  forms  of  stomach 
ailments,  a  deficiency  of  certain  natural  constituents  in 
the  entire  body.  This  deficiency  is  sometimes  if  not 
usually  associated  with  an  excess  of  certain  other  con- 
stituents. Therefore,  in  order  to  accomplish  a  cure 
whose  results  will  be  permanent  it  is  necessary  to  sat- 
urate the  blood  itself  with  the  appropriate  natural  rem- 
edy-constituents that  are  lacking  and  for  which  all 
the  organs  of  the  body  are  making  such  imperative  de- 
mand by  upsetting  the  stomach  or  the  brain.  And  you 
shall  soon  learn  what  those  "appropriate  natural  rem- 
edy-constituents" are. 

The  Small  Intestine  is  not  a  part  of  the  sewer  of 
the  body  and  its  function  must  not  be  confounded  with 
that  of  the  large  or  colonic  bowel. 

In  the  process  of  digestion  the  "duodenum"  and 
small  bowel  play  a  more  important  part  even  than  the 
stomach — for  the  entrance  of  chyle  or  partly  digested 
foods  takes  place  along  the  course  of  the  small  intes- 
tines. The  lacteal  and  lymphatic  vessels  which  con- 
vey the  partly  digested  constituents  of  the  chyle  and 
lymph  into  the  thoracic  duct,  spring  from  the  mucous 
coats  of  the  little  bowel.  The  thoracic  duct  then  emp- 
ties the  load  into  the  left  subclavian  vein  at  the  root 
of  the  neck.    As  you  now  understand  (if  you  have  read 


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what  precedes)  the  digested  material  which  is  thus 
emptied  into  the  blood  current  is  not  really  digested, 
but  is  simply  broken  up  into  more  or  less  fine  drops 
and  particles — that  is,  the  chyle  is  made  up  of  "emul- 
sions" and  "saponifications"  of  the  various  sugars  and 
starches  and  meats  or  albumins  that  you  swallow. 
The  real  digestion  of  the  constituents  of  those  emul- 
sions and  saponifications  takes  place  only  in  the  organs 
or  tissues  that  receive  them.  Hence  it  is  that  the  hearts 
or  nuclei  of  the  cells  are  supplied  with  microscopic  or 
invisible  vacuoles  or  stomachs  or  intestines,  which, 
like  your  ordinary  stomach  and  intestines,  contain  di- 
gestive juices — the  digestive  juice  of  each  specialized 
cell  being  as  different  in  its  way  as  the  digestive  juice 
of  your  stomach  (pepsin)  is  different  from  that  of  your 
pancreas  (pancreatin). 

To  properly  understand  "pancreatic"  or  intestinal 
digestion  and  indigestion  your  mind  must  penetrate 
into  the  mysterious  recesses  of  the  innermost  cells  of 
all  your  organs— and  not  navigate  along  the  lumen  or 
channel  of  your  bowels. 

Whatever  be  your  symptoms  your  bowels  are  not  to 
blame.  If  the  so-called  sewerage,  evacuated  by  the 
billions  of  vacuole-stomachs  or  intestines  of  your  cells, 
is  of  the  proper  make  and  consistency  your  large  or 
small  bowel  will  neither  trouble  nor  worry  you  in  any 
way.  But  if  you  mix  certain  improper  drinks  and 
foods  in  the  emulsions  and  saponifications  which  the 
little  mouths  or  suckers,  that  exist  in  the  mucous  mem- 
brane of  your  small  bowel,  drink  and  swallow  and  then 
convey  to  the  blood  which  supplies  the  protoplasm 
and  nuclei  of  your  cells — then  you  may  figure  on  being 


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troubled  both  with  your  bowels  and  brains,  and  in  time 
with  some  fatal  disease — either  typhoid  fever  or  appen- 
dicitis or  Blight's  disease  or  rheumatism,  in  some  form 
or  other.  And  if  you're  a  woman  or  girl  no  one  else 
but  you  can  appreciate  or  realize  the  innumerable  and 
misery-producing  ailments  and  symptoms  that  you 
will  have  to  endure. 

You  see,  the  little  glandular  mouths  or  suckers  that 
draw  or  imbibe  the  chyle  and  lymph  from  the  small 
intestine  into  the  lacteals  and  lymphatics  don't  mind 
whether  they  have  to  drink  or  swallow  the  perfectly 
sweet  and  health-giving  foods  or  souring  and  decom- 
posing material.  Another  obvious  fact  is  that  when 
these  lacteal  and  lymphatic  vessels  are  full  of  some- 
thing— whether  previously  absorbed  food  or  by-prod- 
ucts of  germs — they  will  not  accommodate  or  make 
room  for  the  new  supply  of  chyle  coming  from  your 
recent  meal,  unless  they  can  vomit  what  they've  got 
either  into  the  blood  or  the  intestines.  They  can't  do 
that  in  a  hurry  without  giving  you  sick-headache  or 
vomiting  spells,  or  slowly  without  your  blood  going 
into  the  fatty  or  adipose  tissue  business. 

Thus,  the  only  source  of  intestinal  diseases  and  dis- 
orders is  improper  combination  of  foods  which  induce 
fermentation  and  decomposition — not  alone  in  the 
small  bowels  but  also  in  the  very  hollows  or  micro- 
scopic intestines  of  the  tissue  cells.  That,  and  that 
alone,  is  the  cause  of  Typhoid  Fever  and  Appendicitis, 
as  it  is  of  Cholera  Infantum  and  Cholera  Morbus — and 
Dysentery,  Intestinal  Catarrh  or  Indigestion  or  Flatu- 
lence, and  so  forth.  I  concede  that  bacteria  or  germs 
or  ferments  contribute  their  mite  toward  focusing  the 


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rubbish  and  fanning  the  flame  that  starts  the  disease, 
but  their  play  in  the  inflammation  or  conflagration  that 
is  set  up  is  very  inconsiderable  compared  to  that  of  the 
long  continued  previous  accumulations  in  the  system 
of  the  waste-products  or  poisons  of  ordinary  food- 
decompositions  taking  place  primarily  in  the  small 
bowels  and  secondarily  in  the  vacuole-intestines  of  the 
nuclei  of  the  cells  themselves. 

In  other  words,  typhoid  fever  and  appendicitis  and 
all  forms  of  enteritis  and  gastro-duodenitis  are  pro- 
duced by  repeated  rottings  of  partly  digested  foods  in 
the  intestines  plus  the  rottings  taking  place  in  the  very 
hearts  of  the  cells  everywhere,  owing  both  to  the  in- 
haling of  the  carbon  dioxide  (carbonic  acid  gas)  and 
i^s  gaseous  products  from  the  air  of  rooms  and  breath 
A  people  and  to  the  appropriating  with  foods  of  less 
detoxicating  or  ferment-preventing  inorganic  or  min- 
eral constituents  than  the  system  needs  to  prevent  the 
occurrence  of  fever  and  so  forth.  That  this  statement 
is  absolutely  correct  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  for  some 
days  before  the  onset  of  the  fever  and  other  warnings 
or  symptoms  the  patient  feels  sick  all  over — showing 
that  the  entire  system  is  waterlogged  with  its  own 
foulness. 

What  is  true  of  the  origin  or  manner  of  bringing 
about  the  body  conditions  which  produce  typhoid  fe- 
ver, is  also  true  of  appendicitis.  If  the  appendix  were 
a  shallow  thimble  instead  of  a  goose-quill,  there  would 
be  no  such  thing  as  appendicitis — and  if  the  bowels 
contained  quite  a  number  of  shallow  thimble-like  ap- 
pendices and  inflammation  was  set  up  in  them,  as  it  is 
in  what  are  called  Peyer's  patches  (in  typhoid),  it 


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would  be  absolutely  impossible  to  tell  the  difference 
between  appendicitis  and  typhoid  fever.  For  the  cause 
or  causes  are  the  same  in  the  two  diseases — the  differ- 
ence being  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  the  appendix 
is  a  different  thing  from  a  Peyer's  patch.  This  truth 
I  have  repeatedly  confirmed  by  putting  a  stop  to  both 
diseases  with  identically  the  same  treatment  and  in 
less  than  twenty-four  hours.    And  WHY  NOT? 

If  the  system,  waterlogged  with  foulness  to  the  brim, 
can  under  the  most  adverse  conditions,  such  as  are 
imposed  on  and  around  and  into  typhoid  patients  under 
the  heretofore  recognized  methods  of  treatment — I  say 
that,  if  the  system  in  spite  of  the  most  conceivably  ir- 
rational treatments  can  and  does  rid  itself  of  or  over- 
come the  poisonous  or  toxic  products  that  bring  on  and 
feed  the  fever — then  WHY  can't  a  little  rational  or 
natural  treatment  enable  the  system  to  do  in  a  few 
hours  what  it  does  in  a  couple  of  weeks  under  those 
most  adverse  conditions?  There  are  no  reasons  why 
we  can't  furnish  in  one  day  as  much  depoisoning  con- 
stituents to  the  blood  of  a  fever  patient  as  the  blood 
takes  some  weeks  to  dig  out  of  that  patient's  fat  and 
muscles  and  organs — because  it  can't  rob  those  tissues 
without  first  melting  them. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  Surgery's  most  prolific  Assets 
are  "cases"  of  Appendicitis  it  is  not  an  easy  matter  to 
substitute  rational  ideas  concerning  the  nature  and 
treatment  of  that  disease — or  to  impress  the  general 
public  with  the  truth  that,  however  successful  it  may 
be,  an  operation  for  appendicitis  NEVER  removes  the 
causative  factor  or  factors  of  the  disease  from  the  indi- 
vidual's body;  and,  with  this  other  truth  that  soon  or 


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late  the  "operation-cured"  case  of  appendicitis  expe- 
riences in  the  same  body-locality  or  in  some  more  vital 
organ  the  evidences  that  the  operation  was  a  very  un- 
profitable if  not  a  fatal  investment,  or  rather  a  foolish 
speculation  on  the  part  of  the  patient. 

If  I  had  to  rid  myself  of  the  constant  danger  which 
the  company  of  a  vicious  beast  would  expose  me  to,  I 
would  prefer  to  destroy  the  animal  as  a  whole  than  to 
fool  myself  into  believing  that  the  beast  was  made 
harmless  by  amputating  its  vocal  cords.  A  dog  whose 
barking  appendix  is  "alert"  is  not  as  dangerous  as  the 
dog  without  a  "bark" — and,  likewise,  a  bowel  whose 
appendix  "talks"  is  a  more  useful  and  intelligent  gut 
than  a  speechless  one.  The  appendix  is  the  "cry-baby" 
or  tattler  of  the  bowels — but  it  never  cries  or  tattles 
without  good  cause,  and  the  cause  which  excites  it  is 
and  has  been  at  work  elsewhere  and  everywhere  else 
in  the  body — and  will  keep  on  working  until  it  is  re- 
moved from  "elsewhere  and  everywhere  else,"  or  until 
it  appears  as  acute  rheumatism  or  kidney  disease  or 
cancer,  and  so  forth. 

Appendicitis  occurs  simply  because  the  intestinal 
and  general  blood  poisons,  ptomaines  or  organic  acids, 
concentrate  their  attack  on,  or  are  shunted  into  the 
blind  finger-glove  of  the  appendix — ^where  inflamma- 
tion is  set  up  and  ulceration  may  follow.  It  is  a  well 
recognized  fact  that  a  large  percentage  of  cases  of  ap- 
pendicitis are  caused  by  rheumatic  poisons.  I  am  con- 
vinced that  every  case  of  appendicitis  and  typhoid  fever 
as  well  as  all  other  intestinal  diseases  are  occasioned 
by  the  same  cellular  by-products  or  waste-poisons — re- 
sulting from  fermentation  and  decomposition — that 
produce  articular  rheumatism. 


i66  Autology — Study   Thyself 

Chronic  Cbnstipation  and  Chronic  Diarrhea  require 
some  special  attention. 

Chronic  constipation  is  perhaps  the  most  common  of 
troubles.  Almost  all  treatments  generally  advocated 
for  it  do  infinitely  more  harm  in  time  than  the  consti- 
pation itself  would  ever  do. 

Bowels  have  no  more  to  do  with  causing  constipa- 
tion than  mouths  have  with  silence.  Habit  has  some- 
thing to  do  with  costiveness,  but  its  real  cause  is  nutri- 
tional. It  isn't  so  much  that  the  intestinal  contents 
become  too  "dry"  as  that  the  protoplasm  and  tissues 
of  your  body  need  the  small  percentage  of  pure  water 
that  you  imbibe;  and  that  the  inorganic  or  mineral 
constituents  that  reach  the  muscular  coats  of  your  bow- 
els through  the  blood  and  lymph  are  insufficient  to 
maintain  "peristalsis."  Or  they  may  be  improperly 
combined. 

All  drugs  and  medicines  that  "act"  by  irritating  or 
"loosening"  the  bowels  or  producing  griping  are  objec- 
tionable and  eventually  absolute  nuisances.  Colonic 
flushings,  or  the  injecting  of  water  per  rectum,  is  a 
method  which  appeals  at  first,  but  tells  its  ov^n  sad  tale 
of  woe  later. 

One's  occupation  is  not  responsible  for  constipation 
— for  people  of  sedentary  habits  are  often  troubled 
with  diarrhea.  Whenever  the  blood  supplies  the  large 
intestines  with  the  proper  quantity  and  admixture  of 
the  various  compounds  which  their  muscular  coats 
and  mucous  glands  require,  they  remain  properly  ac- 
tive. The  type  of  muscle  tissue  which  forms  the  bowel 
walls  is  such  that  it  lacks  the  vitality  of  other  muscle 
Bb€rs;  and,  besides,  the  large  intestine  is  one  of  the 


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last  or  least  important  tissue  that  the  blood  care*  %o 
serve  its  nourishment  to.  This  is  well  shown  in  chil- 
dren at  the  breast.  If  the  mother's  blood  contains 
what  her  own  intestines  require  for  proper  action  the 
infant's  bowels  act  normally — unless  the  child  be  fed 
artificial  foods  in  addition  to  mother's  milk. 

Acute  Diarrhea  is  an  occasional  blessing  which  most 
people  experience  in  the  form  of  punishment  for  im- 
proper indulgence.  But  when  acute  diarrhea  persists 
beyond  a  day  or  two,  or  recurs  at  frequent  intervals, 
then  the  intestinal  condition  which  accompanies  it  is 
called  Intestinal  Catarrh  or  Indigestion.  As  is  cus- 
tomary with  all  diseases,  physicians  never  go  deeper 
than  "skin  deep"  in  search  of  the  cause  of  the  catarrhal 
or  indigestive  trouble.  It  is  obvious  that  impaired 
must  be  the  function  of  a  mucous  membrane  that  is 
swollen  or  congested  emd  that  such  a  membrane  will 
pour  out  mucous  and  acrid  discharges  into  the  canal  of 
the  bowels,  as  it  does  in  the  nose  and  throat,  instead  of 
absorbing  the  chyle  or  partly  digested  food.  Such 
things  are  clear  to  everybody  who  has  had  "a  cold  in 
the  head" — but  the  problem  to  solve  in  "catarrh  of  the 
bowels"  is  to  determine  the  constituents  themselves 
that  exist  in  the  individual's  blood  and  which  produce 
the  catarrhal  inflammation  of  the  mucous  membrane. 
Do  not  for  a  moment  imagine  that  the  poisons  act  di- 
rectly on  the  inside  lining  membrane  of  the  intestine 
without  first  circulating  through  the  blood  and  finally 
returning  to  the  intestinal  walls  to  cause  mischief.  And 
remember  always  that  this  is  the  course  followed  by 
the  chemical  poisons  whether  they  are  products  of 
food  decomposition  or  of  bacteria.    By  the  time  tb  it 


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the  poisons,  arising  from  food-fermentations  and  from 
micro-organisms  and  from  the  tissue-cells  of  the  or- 
gans, reach  the  mucous  membrane  of  the  intestines 
their  chemical  composition  has  been  so  often  modified 
that  they  all  form  the  same  poisonous  compounds. 

In  most  cases  of  chronic  diarrhea  or  dysentery  or 
indigestion  (bowel)  the  source  of  the  trouble  is  found 
in  the  toxic  or  acrid  products  of  food-decomposition, 
and  the  saturation  of  the  blood  with  these  deleterious 
products  has  existed  for  a  considerable  length  of  time. 
Bacteria  alone  do  not  cause  diarrhea.  The  healthy  di- 
gestive fluids  of  the  stomach  and  bowels  destroy  them. 
Tainted  milk  alone  does  not  produce  "summer  com- 
plaint" of  infants,  but  the  improper  feeding  of  infants 
with  artificially  prepared  milks  and  foods  always  does. 
A  child  whose  blood  or  system  is  not  already  polluted 
to  saturation  is  never  harmed  by  an  occasional  dose  of 
impure  or  souring  milk  or  "suspected"  water. 

Children  or  adults  whose  blood  or  flesh  is  otherwise 
clean  never  "contract"  typhoid  fever  from  drinking 
water.  Between  the  most  "delicious"  beef-teas  and 
bouillons  and  other  sloppy  animal  refuse  and  the  least 
"usable"  water — the  water  is  by  far  the  healthiest  for 
man  and  beast  alike,  and  in  disease  as  in  heeilth. 


PREJUDICES  ABOUT  THE  KIDNEYS. 

There  is  considerable  misunderstanding  in  every- 
body's brains  regarding  the  function  of  the  kidney  as 
well  as  the  causes  of  its  impairment.    Very  few  indeed 


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of  the  numerous  things  blamed  as  factors  of  Bright's 
Disease  have  any  bearing  on  kidney  troubles.  Age, 
sex,  predisposition,  occupation,  climate,  heredity  and 
the  like  are  such  incidental  considerations  in  the  study 
of  functional  and  organic  diseases  of  the  kidney  that 
it  is  safer  to  forget  them  and  think  of  some  real  things. 
Another  common  mistake  is  to  look  upon  most  cases 
of  Bright's  disease  as  being  organic — ^which  practically 
means  that  they  are  incurable.  This  is  wrong ;  for  the 
incurable  cases  are  very,  very  rare,  if  treated  naturally 
or  rationally.  This  is  equally  true  of  kidney  disease 
which  accompanies  or  follows  scarlet  fever,  pregnancy 
and  other  diseases.  In  an  experience  of  nearly  eighteen 
years  I  have  not  seen  more  than  one  fatal  case  of  acute 
or  chronic  Nephritis  or  Bright's  disease  out  of  every 
hundred  cases  that  came  under  my  treatment — and  I 
may  add  that  the  proportion  of  "hopeless"  and  very 
chronic  cases  was  large. 

When  a  disease  is  assumed,  by  physicians  and  books, 
to  be  fatal  there  is  very  little  chance  for  the  patient's 
recovery — for  the  physician  undertakes  the  treatment 
with  the  same  spirit  that  some  people  start  to  do  cer- 
tain things,  namely,  "I'm  going  to  try,  but  I  know  I 
can't  do  it."  The  whole  trouble  with  the  remedies  in 
vogue  is  that  they  are  used  by  physicians  and  others 
who  haven't  the  slightest  conception  of  the  physical 
character  of  the  function  or  mechanism  of  the  kidney. 
This  of  course  leads  to  the  application  of  treatments 
which  tend  rather  to  aggravate  or  insure  permanency 
of  the  disease  than  to  remove  it. 

In  the  kidney  are  a  number  of  little  tubules  or  tubes 
which  drain  innumerable  little  spaces,  and  empty  the 


lyo  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

urine  thus  drained  into  a  main  cup — which,  in  turn,  is 
connected  by  a  long  tube  (ureter)  to  the  bladder. 
These  tubules  and  spaces  are  in  direct  communication 
with  the  outside  world  and  are  no  more  a  part  proper 
of  the  kidney  flesh  proper  than  arteries  and  veins  and 
nerves  are  tissues  proper  of  fat  or  muscle  proper. 
Their  business  is  simply  to  act  as  rubber  tubes  to  the 
urine  that  drains  through  or  is  strained  by  the  cellular 
substance  (protoplasm  and  nucleus)  of  the  kidney. 

Again,  bear  in  mind  that  the  urine  is,  like  the  bile 
and  saliva  and  sweat,  a  by-product  of  cellular  activity 
as  that  cellular  activity  occurs  between  the  chemical 
elements  or  compounds  vi^hich  the  blood  and  lymph 
bring  to  the  kidney  cells  and  the  chemical  elements  or 
compounds  which  constitute  the  serum  and  granular 
protoplasm  and  nuclei  of  the  kidney  cells  themselves. 
Therefore  urine  is  strictly  and  chemically  and  func- 
tionally not  a  drained  or  strained  liquid,  but  is  a  manu- 
factured product  of  the  kidney  cells  exactly  as  diges- 
tive juice  is  a  manufactured  product  of  glandular  stom- 
ach and  pancreatic  cells.  It  is  obvious,  therefore,  that 
an  individual's  urine  will  vary  as  that  same  individ- 
ual's saliva  or  pepsin  or  brain  fluid. 

If  the  urine  which  passes  into  the  minute  spaces 
and  tubules  of  the  kidney  is  composed  of  properly  com- 
bined chemical  compounds  dissolved  in  the  right  quan- 
tity of  water — there  can  occur  no  impairment  of  the 
kidney  function.  But  if  the  urinary  compounds  be  too 
concentrated  or  the  water  insufficient  to  thoroughly 
dissolve  and  dilute  them — the  urine  becoming  dense 
and  turbid — the  secretion  will  linger  within  the  hegirta 
or  vacuoles  of  the  tissue  cells  instead  of  readily  and 


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rapidly  flowing  into  the  reservoir  ("pelvis")  of  the 
kidney.  And  not  alone  will  there  occur  a  "urine  con- 
gestion" within  the  tubules  and  spaces  and  "stomachs" 
of  the  kidney  cells — with  the  irritation  and  damage 
incident  thereto — but  there  vvill  ensue  a  retention  and 
saturation  of  the  entire  system  with  the  body  con- 
stituents which  the  kidney  is  intended  to  decompose 
and  recombine,  after  its  own  manner,  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  urine. 

The  kidney  tissue  being  unable  to  drain  or  strain 
out  of  its  spaces  and  tubes  a  sufficient  amount  of  urine 
during  each  twenty-four  hours  to  equalize  the  sys- 
temic demands — there  follows  a  reversal  of  the  pres- 
sure or  tension,  so  that  the  urinary  constituents  that 
should  find  an  outlet  into  the  bladder  are  compelled  to 
"backwater"  into  the  capillaries  and  lymphatics— 
where  they  soon  occasion  disturbances  in  the  nerves, 
or  brain,  or  muscles,  or  joints,  or  anywhere.  In  time 
some  form  of  kidney  disease,  as  well  as  countless  com- 
plaints, is  bound  to  arise.  People  seldom  suspect  their 
kidneys  during  the  formation  period  of  kidney  disease 
because  the  symptoms  produced  are  always  felt  else- 
where. Backache  never  means  kidney  trouble.  It 
means  muscular  pain,  that's  all.  Of  course  you  may 
have  backache  at  the  same  time  that  you  happen  to 
have  kidney  trouble,  just  as  you  may  have  a  cold  sore 
when  you  want  to  look  your  best. 

The  presence  of  albumin  in  the  urine  is  always 
looked  upon  as  a  grave  symptom,  and  will  make  in- 
surance companies  reject  applicants  who  seem  other- 
wise most  healthy.  However,  "albumin  in  the  urine" 
does  not  always  come  from  kidney  disease,  nor  does 


172  Autology — Study   Thyself 

it  always  mean  serious  trouble  when  coming  from  im- 
paired kidney  function.  My  experience  has  been  that 
Chronic  Albuminuria  (Bright's  disease)  is  usually  a 
very  mild  derangement  of  the  chemical  functions  tak- 
ing place  between  the  chemic  species  (or  chemical 
com-pounds)  contained  in  the  serum  and  lymph  out- 
side of  the  cells  and  the  serum  and  lymph  inside  of 
the  cells — of  the  entire  body,  and  not  particularly  of 
the  kidneys.  The  habit  of  blaming  the  kidneys  for 
what  you  and  all  your  other  organs  are  to  blame,  and 
the  habit  of  treating  your  kidneys  for  what  you  and  all 
your  other  organs  should  be  treated — are  rather  re- 
sponsible for  the  prevalence  and  chronicity  of  Bright's 
disease  or  Albuminuria.  When,  to  the  poisons  which 
stagnate  within  as  well  as  on  all  sides  of  the  kidney 
cells,  a  physician  or  the  patient  adds  all  kinds  of  un- 
natural or  irritating  and  stimulating  medicines,  it  is 
not  strange  that  eventually  the  kidney  tissue  proper 
becomes  organically  impaired  and  death  ensues 
through  blood  vessel  degeneration,  or  heart  disease,  or 
uremia,  or  dropsy. 

Albuminuria  and  Bright's  disease  and  other  kidney 
troubles  are  readily  curable — curable  right  at  home 
or  at  work  without  sacrificing  any  of  life's  duties  or 
pleasures.  It  is  far  wiser  to  be  cured  under  the  con- 
ditions and  environments  in  which  you  have  to  work 
and  live — and  then  if  you  like  and  can  afford  it  to  enjoy 
a  pleasure  trip — 'than  it  is  to  undertake  a  sickly-seek- 
ing-after-health,  speculative  and  expensive  journey 
away  from  home. 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  173 

PREJUDICES  ABOUT  THE  LIVER. 

The  liver  is  a  physical  and  medical  junk  shop.  It  is 
made  to  carry  the  burden  of  ignorance  and  blunders  in 
matters  of  health  and  sickness.  If  one  is  bilious  or 
out-of-sorts  the  liver  is  blamed — but  it's  quite  imma- 
terial to  the  liver;  for,  being  a  part  of  your  anatomy, 
what's  the  difference? 

Unlike  many  or  most  other  organs,  the  liver  is  in 
business  for  itself  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
food  or  fuel  for  the  rest  of  the  economy.  Incidentally 
she  produces  a  by-product  called  bile,  which  is  not  de- 
sirable as  regards  her  own  needs,  but  is  essential  to 
the  requirements  of  the  blood  on  the  one  side  and  the 
bowels  on  the  other.  As  long  as  bile  is  of  the  right 
consistency  and  nothing  obstructs  its  passage  into  the 
duodenum,  it  occasions  no  trouble.  Otherwise  visible 
jaundice,  or  som.e  form  of  bilious  attacks  or  sick  head- 
ache, follow.  Hepatic  colic  or  gall  stones  may  and 
often  do  result. 

But  the  commonest  source  of  liver  complaints  is  in 
the  fact  that  glycogen  is  formed  and  stored  away  in 
the  liver.  Glycogen  is  a  form  of  sugar,  and  constitutes 
the  important  fuel  of  the  body.  Work  or  exercise 
burns  it  up.  It  accumulates  with  eating  and  inactivity 
or  laziness. 

The  liver  cells  cannot  accommodate  an  excess  of 
glycogen  without  discommoding  themselves;  without 
impairing  their  function  in  other  directions.  As  noth- 
ing can  remain  at  a  standstill  in  the  body  without  un- 
dergoing decomposition,  any  excess  of  glycogen  over 
and  above  the  actual  needs  of  the  system  is  decom- 


174  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

posed  into  various  organic  acids  or  transformed  into 
useless  fat^-either  of  which  requires  a  certain  propor- 
tion of  the  blood's  mineral  or  electrolytic  elements  or 
compounds  to  neutralize  or  satisfy.  Anything  which 
robs  the  blood  or  tissues  of  these  bodies  tends  to  in- 
crease the  acidity  of  protoplasm — and  protoplasm  can- 
not become  acid  and  survive.  For,  the  natural  resis- 
tance of  protoplasm  and  nucleus  to  poisons  or  disease 
rests  in  its  alkalescence  (opposed  to  becoming  "acid"). 
In  order  to  make  room  for  any  excess  of  glycogen 
the  liver  cells  must  displace  an  equivalent  amount  of 
bile  either  into  the  small  intestine  or  back  into  the 
blood  or  lymphatic  vessels.  Besides,  this  condition 
hampers  the  secreting  and  excreting  functions  of  the 
liver.  Hence  the  occurrence  of  nervous  troubles,  head- 
aches, bilious  attacks,  sciatica  or  other  forms  of  neu- 
ralgia, or  stomach  pains  with  or  without  spells  of  vom- 
iting— not  to  mention  a  great  variety  of  obscure  con- 
ditions produced  in  the  ovaries  or  womb.  The  fact 
that  one's  liver  may  manufacture  more  bile  than  one 
may  think  it  should  does  not  account  for  any  of  the 
ills  which  are  ascribed  to  the  liver.  The  liver  as  such 
cannot  possibly  manufacture  too  much  bile  unless  it  is 
supplied  by  the  blood  with  too  great  an  abundance  of 
the  chemical  constituents  which  go  to  make  up  bile. 
The  liver  does  not  create  bile  or  glycogen;  but  if  it  is 
crowded  with  raw  material  from  the  blood  and  the 
stomach  it  keeps  open  shop  night  and  day  and  turns 
out  "goods"  after  any  old  fashion  and  dumps  part  of 
them  back  into  the  blood,  for  the  nerves'  and  brain's 
and  complexion's  benefit,  and  part  into  the  bowels  or 
stomach,  for  the  doctor's  benefit. 


A  ut  op  a  thy— Cure  Thyself  175 

Bile-acids  are  great  mischief  makers,  but  have  not 
been  as  yet  sufficiently  recognized  as  such  by  physi- 
cians in  the  treatment  of  diseases.  Professional  and 
public  minds  have  been  too  saturated  with  uric  acid 
notions  to  permit  of  any  special  attention  being  given 
to  hundreds  of  other  organic  acids  which  are  formed 
in  the  body  and  which  are  considerably  more  injurious 
than  uric  acid.  To  enumerate  these  and  go  into  de- 
tails regarding  their  origin  and  action  in  different  dis- 
eases would  take  unnecessary  time  and  space ;  for,  ir- 
respective of  their  names  and  chemical  constitutions, 
they  one  and  all  arise  from  the  same  "radical"  or 
nucleus,  and  they  one  and  all  combine  in  the  blood  and 
tissues  with  inorganic  elements  and  are  eliminated  as 
water,  carbon  dioxide  and  ammonia  compounds.  So 
that,  whatever  mischief  they  produce  in  their  journey 
through  the  blood  and  tissues  they  produce  it  in  the 
same  way  and  as  one  individual  poison  or  compound 
or  acid — as  you  have  read  elsewhere  in  this  book. 

If  you  wish  to  obtain  a  fair  idea  of  the  state  of  your 
blood  in  regard  to  its  containing  a  surplus  of  biliary 
poisons — look  at  the  white  of  your  eyes  in  good  day- 
light. If  your  system  is  fairly  free  the  white  around 
the  pupil  muscle  will  appear  glossy  with  a  tendency 
to  bluish;  and  glossy  white  with  tendency  to  pink  in 
the  corners.  If  the  white  of  your  eye  appears  tinted 
yellowish  or  lemon  shade,  you'll  hear  of  it  some  day 
if  you  are  not  already  troubled  somehow. 


176  Autology — Study  Thyself 

PREJUDICES  ABOUT  URIC  ACID. 

By  "lithemia"  is  meant  the  excessive  formation  or 
accumulation  of  uric  acid  in  the  blood  or  system.  This 
conception  of  Rheumatism  (lithemia)  is  hypothetical 
entirely ;  for  the  reason  that  it  shifts  the  responsibil- 
ity on  to  a  chemical  individual,  as  it  is  extracted  from 
the  urine,  or  from  its  blood  and  tissue  compounds  in 
health  as  well  as  in  disease — when  actually  the  chem- 
ical basis  of  the  formation  of  urates  and  ureids  (not 
uric  acid  as  such)  is  far  removed  from  the  substance 
called  uric  acid.  To  blame  uric  acid  for  any  blood  or 
tissue  condition  or  disease  is  exactly  the  same  as  blam- 
ing the  innocent  messenger  boy  for  the  bad  news 
which  the  dispatch  conveys. 

The  latest  offspring  of  the  imagination  is  the  inven- 
tion of  ferments  that  are  supposed  to  be  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  uric  acid.  'Tis  better  to  blame  some 
bugaboo  than  one's  own  stupidity  or  overindulgence. 
In  return  for  this  "wise"  move  of  the  imagination  of 
some  "eminent"  head,  the  imagination  of  some  other 
"eminent"  head  invents  the  birth  of  ferments  whose 
business  it  is  to  destroy  uric  acid.  Why  not  show 
some  little  sense  and  invent  a  ferment  that  would 
"lick"  the  other  ferment  instead? 

Lithemia  is  a  name.  Uric  acid  is  a  name.  Rheuma- 
tism is  a  name.  But  being  sick  and  suffering  is  NO 
name.  Dying  is  no  name.  A  funeral  is  no  name.  Pay- 
ing a  bill  for  sickness  is  no  nam,e. 

Breathing  is  not  a  mere  name — nor  is  drinking  and 
eating.    Nor  is  overindulgence  in  drinks  or  foods. 

What  your  lungs  breathe  in  and  breathe  out  are  NO 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  177 

names.  What  your  throat  swallows  is  not  a  mere 
name. 

But  what  your  brains  breathe  in  and  breathe  out 
and  swallow  in  and  out  in  medical  matters  is  both 
nominal  and  names. 

If  I  ask  an  intelligent  stranger  or  friend  "What 
causes  rheumatism  or  uric  acid  poisoning?"  he 
answers,  "Eating  too  much."  And  when  I  ask 
"Why?"  he  replies,  "Because  too  much  food  produces 
uric  acid  or  rheumatism."  And  when  I  add,  "How?"  he 
doesn't  know.  And  then  when  I  remind  him  that  a 
great  many  people  who  overeat  and  indulge  in  too 
much  beer  and  wine  never  have  rheumatism,  he  begins 
to  suspect  that  a  theory  that  doesn't  work  both  ways 
is  defective  somewhere.  The  fact  is  that  nearly  one 
hundred  per  cent  of  the  people  would  be  "rheumatics," 
or  have  uric  acid  blood  poisoning  if  "eating  too  m.uch" 
was  the  cause  of  rheumatism — and  also,  if  the  real 
cause  of  rheumatism  was  "eating  too  much"  our  ani- 
mal or  instinctive  selves  would  soon  put  a  check  to 
that  form  of  appetite  which  craves  for  "too  much" 
food.  The  secret  of  the  whole  problem  in  rheumatism 
is  not  a  question  of  bulk,  but  is  a  question  of  impera- 
tive demand  by  the  fluids  and  tissues  of  the  body  for 
certain  food-constituents  which  the  body  lacks  to  off- 
set or  neutralize  certain  other  food-constituents.  In 
craving  for  bulk  the  system  expects  to  derive  a  suffi- 
cient quantity  or  proportion  of  the  certain  constituents 
which  it  has  previously  discarded  in  its  elaborating  of 
the  protoplasm  and  nuclei  of  its  various  cells.  But  the 
individual's  brain  conveys  only  the  general  impression 
of  the  system's  needs  and  fails  to  go  into  details — 


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hence  the  abnormal  appetite  continues  until  the  econ- 
omy is  saturated  and  refuses  to  work  any  longer  under 
the  unjust  conditions  of  supply  and  demand  imposed 
on  it. 

Lithemia  or  rheumatism  and  '*colds"  or  catarrh,  as 
well  as  various  forms  of  nervous  and  brain  ailments, 
are  due  to  the  same  factors  which  produce  biliousness 
in  some  people.  They  can  all  be  traced  to  an  excess 
of  carbon  dioxide  in  the  air  people  breathe  or  to  an 
oversupply  of  starchy  and  saccharine  foods  in  propor- 
tion to  the  foodstuffs  which  contain  inorganic  or  min- 
eral elements  or  compounds — and  not  to  the  sum  total 
of  the  things  that  are  eaten.  Starches  and  sugars  un- 
dergo decomposition  into  organic  acids  in  the  normal 
individual  exactly  as  they  do  in  the  unhealthy.  And 
hundreds  of  these  organic  acids  are  even  better  known 
than  is  uric  acid. 

Brains  and  livers  and  muscles  and  joints  and  mucous 
membranes  manufacture  their  own  substance  out  of 
the  same  foods,  and  in  so  doing  they  produce  decom- 
position-products. These  decomposition  or  dead-mat- 
ter products  emanate  both  from  their  own  substance 
and  the  substance  of  the  nutriment  they  receive.  But 
they  never  decompose  inorganic  or  mineral  elements — 
nor  can  they  manufacture  or  change  them  in  any  way. 
Cells  or  tissues  can  only  assort  or  combine  those  ac- 
cording to  the  laws  of  chemical  affinity  or  tension — 
and  cells  cannot  complete  the  process  of  assimilation, 
that  is  of  replenishing  their  ovm  substance,  witliout 
being  provided  with  those  mineral  bodies.  Therefore, 
when  the  supply  is  too  small  to  go  around  some  organ 
or  tissue  has  to  suffer,  and  a  certain  quantity  of  the 


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fluid  nutriment  that  cannot  be  utilized  must  be  elim- 
inated as  catarrhal  discharge  or  rheumatic  effusion. 

If  the  man  who  lives  by  hard  manual  labor  partakes 
of  the  same  air,  liquids  and  foods  that  suits  the  man 
who  sits  at  his  desk  all  day  or  works  chiefly  with  his 
brain — he  is  sure  to  develop  pneumonia  or  typhoid 
fever  or  consumption.  On  the  other  hand,  if  the  con- 
ditions are  reversed,  the  brain  worker  will  have  kid- 
ney trouble  or  rheumatism  or  brain  fag  and  other  ner- 
vous derangements. 

It  stands  to  reason  that  if  four-fifths  of  your  work 
is  of  the  brain  and  nerve  kind,  your  system  requires 
that  you  supply  it  with  a  proportionate  amount  of 
nerve  and  brain  food — the  same  that  a  piece  of  cloth 
which  contains  four-fifths  wool  and  one-fifth  cotton 
needs  four-fifths  wool  in  the  weaving.  The  body  has 
a  way  of  converting  "cotton"  foods  into  "woolen" 
foods,  but  only  at  a  considerable  sacrifice  of  energy  and 
to  the  detriment  of  some  organ  or  tissue. 

Physicians  of  former  days  recognized  the  fact  that 
rheumatism  attacks  every  kind  of  tissues.  To  them 
colds,  catarrh,  rheumatism,  lumbago,  sciatica,  neural- 
gia, pleurisy  and  gout  and  "odds  and  ends"  of  head  or 
functional  troubles,  were  about  one  and  the  same  sick- 
ness— expressing  itself  in  a  different  language  in  ac- 
cord with  the  organ  or  tissue  affected.  There  was  real 
scientific  or  rational  sense  in  that — as  is  already  be- 
coming evident  by  the  fact  that  the  medical  mind  is 
surreptitiously  divorcing  itself  from  the  bacterial  De- 
lusion and  returning  to  its  first  love — namely,  physical 
and  chemical  Science,  now  called  Biology — concerning 
which  professional  as  well  as  non-professional  brains 
know  less  than  they  do  about  what  grows  money. 


i8o  Autology— Study   Thyself 

As  the  h'ning  sac  of  joints  is  "serous"  instead  of  "mu- 
cous," it  is  natural  that  the  inflammatory  or  excessive 
exudate  which  leaks  into  the  joints  instead  of  the 
bronchial  tubes  or  throat  or  uterine  cavity  should  be 
"serous"  instead  of  "mucous"  or  slimy.  When  nature 
picks  out  the  joints  to  rid  the  blood  of  an  over-stock 
of  body  poisons — instead  of  the  lungs  or  pleural  cav- 
ity, or  bowels,  or  brain,  or  bladder  or  womb,  and  so 
forth — it  is  because  the  joint  surfaces  of  the  patient 
are  weaker  or  offer  less  resistance  to  their  exit  than  do 
other  organs  or  membranes;  but  not  because  the 
rheumatism  poison  has  any  particular  preference  for 
any  abode  or  outlet. 

That  uric  acid  and  urates  bear  some  casual  (not 
causative)  relation  to  the  production  of  rheumatism 
and  catarrhal  troubles  is  unquestionable.  But  uric 
acid  and  urates  are  perfectly  normal  or  natural  prod- 
ucts formed  in  the  tissues  of  the  body  during  normal 
processes  of  cell-decomposition  or  disassimilation. 

The  mother-substance  of  uric  acid  and  of  urea  and 
urates,  as  v»7ell  as  of  all  the  hundreds  of  organic  acids 
and  ptomaines  and  leucomains  (blood  poisons),  is  car- 
boxyl  (COOH),  the  "radical"  or  nucleus  of  carbonic 
acid  proper  (HoCOg).  And  carbonic  acid  proper 
comes  from  carbonic  acid  gas  (COo)  or  carbon  dioxide. 

Therefore,  I  claim  that  carbon  dioxide  is  the  real, 
fundamental  and  chemical  cause  of  rheumatism  in  all 
the  tissues  and  of  all  its  forms — I  have  therefore  coined 
the  name  DIOXIDOSIS  to  convey  my  conception  of 
the  blood  and  tissue  condition  which  exists  in  all  forms 
of  acute  and  chronic  rheumatism  and  which  gives  rise 
to  the  symptoms  and  morbid  changes  in  the  system  of 
the  patient. 


Au  top  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  i8r 

The  nature  of  the  actual  tissue  changes  in  chronic 
rheumatism  is  not  understood  by  any  other  writer  or 
teacher.  It  has  been  and  is  still  claimed  that  chronic 
rheumatism  consists  in  a  deposit  of  uric  acid  or  its 
compounds  in  the  affected  joints.  For  years  I  have 
been  insisting  that  the  process  was  just  the  reverse  of 
that.  Namely,  that  it  was  a  process  of  absorbing  or 
melting  away  of  the  softer  constituent-parts  (such  as 
membranes  and  cartilages)  of  the  joints  for  the  pur- 
pose of  supplying  the  patient's  blood  with  certain 
neutralizing  elements  that  nature  absolutely  needed  to 
protect  more  vital  or  useful  organs  or  tissues.  It  was 
not  an  easy  matter  to  confirm  my  convictions  until  I 
devised  a  method  of  photographing  the  living  hand 
that  you  see  in  the  X-Ray  picture  found  in  this  book. 

You  will  observe  that  the  joint  membranes  and  car- 
tilages of  the  finger-joints  have  been  eaten  away,  and 
that  the  eating-away  process  has  made  considerable 
headway  in  the  heads  of  the  bones  that  form  the  sec- 
ond joint  of  the  index  finger.  Also  of  great  interest  is 
the  fact  that  the  finger  nails  show  so  distinctly  in  this 
rheumatic  hand,  whereas  they  cannot  be  made  to  pho- 
tograph vnth  any  degree  of  clearness  in  a  normal  hand. 
The  reason  for  their  showing  so  well  is  that  nature  has 
been  robbing  them  also  of  their  soft  tissues  and,  there- 
fore, the  nail-substance  proper  has  become  more  con- 
densed. There  are  also  a  number  of  most  interesting 
and  scientific  features  revealed  in  that  picture,  but 
they  interest  chemists  more  than  medical  men  or  pa- 
tients. Take  a  magnifying  or  reading  glass  and  see 
the  wonderful  details  within  the  bones  and  in  the  flesh 
of  those  fingers — and  remember  that  the  original  pho- 


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tograph  from  which  this  half-tone  is  taken  is  still  finer 
in  every  detail. 


PREJUDICES  ABOUT  THE  MIND. 

The  mind,  as  a  brain-function,  is  of  no  more  impor- 
tance than  the  liver's,  or  heart's,  or  lungs',  or  kid- 
neys*. 

People's  habit  of  looking  upon  the  mind  as  "the 
whole  thing"  is  directly  and  almost  altogether  to  blame 
for  nervous  and  mental  diseases,  such  as  neurasthenia, 
melancholia,  epilepsy  and  various  forms  of  insanity. 

Mental  diseases  are  caused  by  the  same  blood  con- 
stituents that  produce  soft  and  hard  corns  and  bun- 
ions; and  insanity,  as  well  as  all  other  nervous  and 
mental  disease,  is  no  more  "hereditary"  than  are  colds 
and  swearing.  There  may  have  been  sick  headaches, 
or  drunkenness,  or  epilepsy,  or  hysteria,  or  insanity  in 
some  cousin  or  aunt,  but  there  positively  have  been 
numerous  "colds"  and  "snuffles"  and  "stomach-aches" 
and  "cussing"  and  "unmentionables"  in  everybody  and 
everybody's  family  tree.  Why  not  call  these  "heredi- 
tary"? If  there  be  such  a  disease  as  is  truly  hereditary, 
then  it  is  the  mental  habit  of  physicians  to  blame  some 
dead  or  absent  member  of  somebody  else's  family  for 
symptoms  or  diseases  that  their  own  brains  don't  un- 
derstand. That  is  the  only  hereditary  disease  that  I've 
ever  come  across.  All  cases  of  nervous  or  mental  dis- 
eases which  I  have  seen  or  studied  or  treated  in  my 
practice  or  at  the  sanitarium  were  caused  by  actual, 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  183 

physical,  tangible,  analyzable  blood  and  flesh  constitu- 
ents. 

If  any  blood  constituents  irritate  or  disturb  the  lung 
tissue  the  lungs  inform  you  of  the  fact  by  coughing. 
When  your  system  becomes  bilious  your  sick  head  or 
vomity  stomach  tells  you.  When  you  want  to  com- 
municate you  write  or  talk.  When  dogs  want  to  com- 
municate they  bark  or  bite,  and  so  forth.  Now,  what 
do  you  expect  the  brain  to  do  v/hen  blood  poisons  keep 
lurking  around  and  polluting  its  soft  mushy  tissue  and 
its  little  or  big  lakes  of  cerebral  fluid  or  serum?  The 
brain  can't  vomit,  nor  talk,  nor  cry,  nor  cough,  but  it 
can  get  "off  its  base."  And  it  does  that  oftener  when 
it  is  "well"  or  "sane"  than  when  it  is  "sick"  or  "in- 
sane." 

If  you  have  ever  observed  so-called  insane  people 
you  have  noticed  that  they  are  more  consistent  in  their 
insanity  than  most  people  are  in  their  sanity.  On  the 
other  hand,  I  can  tell  you  that  a  sick  lung  or  liver  or 
kidney  is  always  consistent  in  its  "deranged"  or  "in- 
sane" function.  By  this  I  mean  that,  in  health  and  in 
sickness,  all  our  organs  and  tissues  are  always  abso- 
lutely sane,  far  saner  than  our  artificial  mentalities, 
and  that  we  have  no  more  reason  to  call  a  melancholic 
or  hysteric  or  maniacal  person  "insane"  than  we  would 
have  to  call  a  dyspeptic  or  bilious  or  pneumonia  or 
typhoid  or  consumptive  person  "insane."  The  last 
show  much  more  insanity  than  the  first. 

Give  stomachs  and  livers  and  kidneys  what  they 
need  and  they  remain  sane  and  sound.  Give  brains 
and  nerves  what  they  need  and  they  remain  sane  and 
sound.     Give  sick  stomachs  and  livers  and  kidneys 


i84  Auto  logy — Study   Thyself 

what  they  need  and  they  become  sane  and  sound. 
Give  sick  nerves  and  brains  what  they  need  and  they 
likewise  become  sane  and  sound. 

Epilepsy  is  a  fit  of  cussing  or  anger  or  temper  in- 
sidei  of  the  nuclei  or  "live"  sand  of  the  brain  cells. 
Epileptics  are  or  were  brainier  than  their  relatives. 

Neurasthenia  or  nervous  exhaustion  is  a  tired, 
nagged  or  teased  feeling  inside  of  nerve  and  brain  cells, 
and  that  feeling  is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  constituents 
of  the  protoplasm  and  nuclei  are  not  properly  "mated" 
or  don't  relish  the  company  they're  in. 

Insanity  is  a  condition  of  pending  divorce  between 
protoplasm  and  nuclei  of  the  brain  cells.  Just  as  the 
physical  and  mental  and  moral  products  of  divorcees 
are  not  duplicates  of  or  harmoniously  constituted  with 
former  products  or  offsprings  so  the  protoplasm  and 
nuclei  of  divorced  or  divorce-seeking  brain  cells  are 
not  duplicates  of,  or  harm.oniously  connected  with,  nor- 
mal or  natural  brain  substance.  Hence  the  various  and 
varying  forms  and  degrees  of  psychosis  or  mental  de- 
rangement. 


ABOUT  RANK  SEXUAL  LITERATURE. 

To  teach  young  people  sex-physiology  is  to  pollute 
their  brains  instead  of  their  specialized  organs.  The 
mental  form  of  immorality  invariably  invites  the  ana- 
tom.ical.  Protect  your  children,  but  do  not  try  to  anti- 
septicize  them  by  imparting  knowledge  for  which  they 
have  absolutely  no  use  until  such  time  as  the  laws  of 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  185 

physics  and  chemistry  reveal  to  their  minds  the  natural 
purposes  of  certain  functions  and  organs. 

The  most  prolific  cause  of  "sexual"  troubles  is  faulty 
education.  To  stimulate  those  special  organs  through 
the  mind  or  the  imagination  before  or  during  puberty 
is  to  create  certain  unnatural  desires  or  habits,  mental 
or  physical,  which  accentuate  abnormal  sex  affinities 
and  weaken  normal  inhibiting  and  selective  nerve  areas 
in  the  spinal  cord  and  brain. 

I  wish  to  state  without  qualification  that  it  is  physic- 
ally and  mentally  and  morally  criminal  to  inform  a  girl 
that  she  has  ovaries  and  a  womb,  and  so  forth,  until 
such  time  as  events  or  environiricnts  make  it  impera- 
tive for  her  brain  to  ask  or  for  parents  to  explain,  and 
then  never  answer  or  explain  beyond  the  unavoidable. 

Don't  deceive  yourself  with  the  sophism  that  girls 
must  "know"  so  as  to  be  "protected"  against  future 
dangers.  Aside  from  the  fact  that  the  little  knowledge 
which  parents  and  educators  are  able  to  impart  to 
young  girls  is  far  more  dangerous  than  no  knowledge 
at  all,  there  is  this  to  remember:  That  v/hen  you  turn 
the  brain's  current  of  mental  thoughts  into  sex  physi- 
ology it  will  keep  flowing  and  trickling  in  that  direc- 
tion at  inopportune  as  well  as  opportune  moments,  and 
that  the  mental  fluids  will  not  always  be  limpid  or  calm 
or  unpolluted.  The  natural  or  inborn  craving  of  the 
senses  to  witness  or  experience  or  confirm  the  con- 
cepts of  the  imagination  are  so  irresistible  in  the  de- 
veloping brain  that  the  brain  will  project  forth  to  the 
girl's  special  organs  the  sensations  that  those  organs 
fail  to  experience.  These  projected  sensations  for- 
bode  more  real  future  dangers  or  damage  than  abso- 
lute ignorance  can  possibly  invite. 


i86  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

Granting  that  the  will  power  is  increased — although 
I  know  that  it  is  diminished — ^by  teaching  sex  physi- 
ology to  young  brains,  it  must  be  admitted  that  every 
reference  to  "sexual"  matters  directs  the  mind  to  those 
organs.  We  know  that  the  mind  cannot  think  of  those 
organs  without  setting  into  motion  the  fluids  and 
chemical  constituents  of  the  nerves  which  lead  from 
the  brain  and  spinal  cord  to  those  organs.  And  we 
know  further  that  an  increased  flow  of  blood  accom- 
panies nerve  currents  or  stimuli.  Therefore  a  condi- 
tion of  "blushing"  is  produced  in  those  organs  each 
and  every  time  a  parent  or  teacher  refers  to  those  sub- 
jects— just  as  face  blushing  is  occasioned  under  similar 
circumstances.  Repeat  this  blushing  of  those  organs 
during  the  months  or  years  of  puberty  and  you  may 
be  sure  that  the  nutrition  which  the  increased  flow  or 
congestion  of  blood  brings  to  them  will  develop  un- 
natural and  premature  sensitiveness  or  excessive  de- 
sires in  certain  directions. 

Stop  infecting  girls'  minds  or  brains  with  such 
things  and  you  will  diminish  by  four-fifths  the  pro- 
portion of  young  women's  ailments,  not  to  say  any- 
thing about  the  moral  dangers  which  a  smattering  of 
false  notions  invites  and  excites. 

You  cannot  teach  purity  to  any  living  brain  vdthout 
contrasting  it  with  impurity,  and  to  create  certain  in- 
distinct, gauzy,  undefined  pictures  of  contours  or  un- 
mentionables in  a  young  person's  brain  is  far  worse 
and  seductive  than  is  the  placing  of  the  originals — in 
all  their  abhorrent,  disgusting,  clammy  physical  de- 
tails— before  their  blood  and  flesh  eyes  and  reach. 

As  regards  sex  and  specialized  organs  and  functions, 


A  ut  op  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  187 

the  coming  generation  must  necessarily  return  to  the 
good  sense  and  judgment  of  our  great-grandparents. 
With  them  the  brain  did  not  hot-house  or  nurse  or 
pet  these  organs,  or  seduce  them  as  is  almost  univers- 
ally done  these  days.    Immorality  is  a  brain-brew. 

The  only  rational  and  practical  method  of  prevent- 
ing and  checking  the  prevalent  epidemic  of  mental  and 
physical  "male"  and  "female"  troubles  is  by  cultivat- 
ing the  brains  of  university  men,  students  and  pro- 
fessors, with  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  phy- 
sical and  chemical  laws  of  actions  and  reactions  in 
social  and  sex  intercourse.  This  and  that  alone 
will  relegate  "sex"  specialism  to  the  wastebasket  of 
Public  Immorality,  and  "immunize"  the  coming  gen- 
erations of  young  men  and  women  against  sexual 
brain-infection  or  mental  self-abuse. 

Leave  each  and  every  organ  of  the  body  where  it 
belongs.  Don't  accustom  any  brain  to  attend  to  the 
function  or  behavior  of  any  sex  organ,  and  by  all 
means  don't  transfer  their  sensations  to  the  brain  any 
more  than  you  would  their  odor. 

It  stands  to  reason  that  sex  organs  which  have  been 
mentally  or  physically  tampered  with  by  self  or  by 
specialists,  and  which  nature  has  been  using  as  chan- 
nels or  reservoirs  for  the  body's  waste  products  for 
months  or  years,  have  accumulated  within  their  tis- 
sues and  cells  certain  chemical  constituents  or  com- 
pounds which  have  become  so  acclimated  therein 
that  they  have  actually  changed  the  normal  texture  as 
well  as  functions  of  those  organs  and  nerves.  There- 
fore no  local  treatment  or  "douching"  can  possibly  be 
of  real  or  permanent  benefit. 


i88  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y— Study   Thyself 

That  which  nature  wisely  compels  men  and  women 
to  indulge  pleasurably  in  the  sacredness  of  mutual  ex- 
istence, but  which  human  instinct  and  law  forbid  in 
public  should  not  be  made  mentally  feelable  or  visible 
outside  of  that  sacred  realm. 

The  mental  sight  whose  physical  duplicate  is  not  fit 
for  the  public  gaze  is  not  fit  for  the  young  people's 
brains,  and  the  knowledge  of  acts  or  functions  that 
are  not  fit  for  public  exhibition  is  not  fit  for  young 
people's  intellectual  development.  And  when  edu- 
cators attempt  to  obliterate  or  neutralize  the  natural 
conditions  which  surround  certain  parts  and  functions 
of  the  body  so  that  the  objectionable  or  repellent 
"sentiments"  created  in  the  mind  or  brain  by  the 
sight  of  certain  parts  and  functions — in  private  or  pub- 
lic— are  converted  into  indifferent  or  inviting  "senti- 
ments," then,  I  say,  the  individuals  and  the  race  are 
degenerating.  I  would  a  thousand  times  prefer  to  at- 
tend my  own  daughter's  funeral  than  to  know  that 
the  school  teacher  or  anybody  was  teaching  her  the 
how  and  wherefore  of  her  playmates'  organic  differen- 
tiation. 

Would  I  never  teach  physiology  to  children  and 
young  people?  Indeed,  I  would  teach  it  so  much  that 
boys  and  girls  of  seven  would  know  more  of  physi- 
ology and  biology  than  their  parents  know  today.  But 
I  would  not  teach  their  brains  to  functionate  for  any 
organ  that  had  not  already  learned  to  functionate  for 
itself,  and  I  would  not  teach  their  brains  how  func- 
tionating organs  should  not  functionate,  and  I  cer- 
tainly would  not  induce  them  to  experiment  with  cer- 
tain   undeveloped    or   dormant    functions   by   telling 


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them  why  and  wherefore  those  certain  functions  were 
not  made  to  be  utilized  for  themselves. 


PREJUDICES  ABOUT  "GERMS"  AND  DISEASE. 

A  germ,  or  a  bacteria,  or  a  microbe,  or  a  fungus,  or 
a  ferment,  is  a  cellular  organism.  It  has  the  same 
general  form  and  chemical  or  physical  makeup  and 
function  that  the  individual  cells  of  plants  or  ani- 
mals have.  The  cell  of  a  so-called  disease-microbe  or 
germ  has  the  same  constitution,  and  acts  and  produces 
the  same  healthy  and  unhealthy  products  and  com- 
pounds that  do  the  cells  of  our  blood  or  brain  or  tis- 
sues. Most  doctors  do  not  know  that,  but  all  chemists 
and  biologists  do. 

Germs  cannot  live  on  nothing,  nor  can  they  live  on 
material  that  is  not  suitable  any  more  than  our  organs 
or  cells  can. 

It  has  long  been  demonstrated  that  healthy  blood 
serum,  digestive  juice  and  cell-contents  are  not  suit- 
able for  the  life  and  growth  of  microbes,  germs,  bac- 
teria, etc. 

Healthy  blood  kills  every  species  of  germs  or  mi- 
crobes. Where,  then,  is  the  logic  or  sense  in  claiming 
that  germs  are  the  cause  of  fevers  or  diseases?  Of 
course,  the  air  is  full  of  germs  or  of  the  spores  of 
germs  as  it  is  of  the  spores  of  maggots,  but  germs 
won't  grow  or  exist  in  healthy  blood  or  bodies  any 
more  than  maggots  will  in  "live"  meat.  And  why? 
Because  Nature  has  incorporated  certain  "preserva- 


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tives"  in  the  blood  and  the  serum  or  juices  of  living 
tissues  as  people  incorporate  certain  "preservatives" 
to  keep  cider  from  fermenting  or  canned  meat  from 
rotting. 

Therefore  germs  or  microbes  or  bacteria  are  not  the 
real  or  direct  causes  of  fevers  or  diseases,  but  they  are 
only  the  outcome  of  factors  or  conditions  which  exist 
or  have  existed  in  the  blood  or  tissues  themselves.  I 
am  convinced  that  nearly  all,  if  not  all,  the  germs 
which  the  microscope  discovers  in  the  blood  or  ex- 
cretions of  the  body  in  infectious  diseases  are  the 
product  and  not  the  cause  of  the  diseases  themselves, 
and  that  they  emanate  from  the  "live"  granular  mat- 
ter of  the  sick  nuclei  of  the  cells  of  the  body,  or  leuco- 
cytes (white  corpuscles),  or  develop  from  the  benign 
or  harmless  spores  or  germs  which  inhabit  the  mouth 
or  lungs  or  digestive  organs  in  health  as  well  as  in 
disease. 


WHAT   TO   DO 

AND  WHAT  NOT  TO  DO. 

I.  AVOID  BREATHED  AIR.  Avoid  breathing 
air  that  has  been  breathed — at  home  and  at  work — 
asleep  as  well  as  awake.  Breathed  air  is  a  virulent 
poison;  your  own  as  well  as  others'.  And  equally 
to  be  shunned  is  the  air  which  comes  from  a  burning^ 
lamp,  or  gas  jet,  or  any  kind  of  a  "burning"  stove  or 
furnace  or  heater.  Any  "air"  which  is  confined  "in- 
doors" begins  to  be  "breathed  air"  the  moment  one  or 
more  persons  or  animals,  or  flames  or  fires  are  present. 

Always  and  everywhere  avoid  that  contaminated 
air,  if  you  have  to  quarrel  to  do  it.  If  you  don't,  you'll 
have  to  suffer  and  the  devil  to  pay  to  get  your  blood 
and  flesh  rid  of  it.  Besides,  you'll  lose  your  job  or 
business  or  happiness  soon  or  late.  As  for  children, 
please  don't  "hot-house"  them  if  you  don't  want  to 
"flower-pot"  them. 


HOW  TO  VENTILATE. 

According  to  "Natural  Self  Treatment,"  the  object 
of  "ventilating"  is  not  to  "air"  rooms  and  buildings, 
but  it  is  to  "air"  yourself.    If  you  do  that  just  exactly 

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twenty-three  hours  and  fifty-nine  minutes  and  sixty 
seconds  in  every  twenty-four  hours  you  need  never 
worry  about  the  "ventilation"  of  your  rooms  or  build- 
ings— ^they'll  take  care  of  themselves. 

What  do  you  ventilate  on  hot  days  and  nights? 
Yourself,  isn't  it?  Well,  why  turn  a  mental  hand- 
spring on  cold  days  and  nights?  In  warm  w^eather 
your  rooms  can  "go  hang"  so  long  as  your  skin  feels 
cool  or  a  breeze ;  whereas  in  cold  weather  your  lungs 
can  "go  hang"  so  long  as  your  rooms  feel  cool-less  and 
breeze-less.  Thus  it  comes  to  pass  that  in  warm 
weather  every  room,  and  home,  and  factory,  and  school, 
and  public  building — and  man  and  woman  and  child — 
gets  "ventilated"  twenty-four  hours  every  day ;  where- 
as each,  and  all  such,  gets  "ventilated"  but  a  fraction 
of  an  hour  or  two  during  cold  weather. 

In  the  summer-time  you  don't  let  the  air  blow 
through  when  there's  no  one  around— as  you  do  in  the 
winter-time.  For  instance,  in  cold  weather  you  "venti- 
late" bedrooms  during  the  day  when  you  are  not  oc- 
cupying them,  and  actually  do  not  have  any  use  for 
the  vitalizing  air;  and  you  proceed  to  shut  everything 
airtight  when  you  go  to  bed,  and  must  know  that  your 
breath  is  going  to  vitiate  or  pollute  the  air  of  that  room 
long  before  you  wake  up  in  the  morning,  and  must 
know  that  the  "registers"  or  heaters  or  stoves  are  go- 
ing to  assist  effectually  in  accomplishing  that  result. 

But  in  the  summer-time  you  "air"  your  bedroom 
during  the  night  when  you  are  in  there,  and  shut  it  up 
during  the  day  when  you  are  not  in  there.  How  "wise" 
all  people  are  in  warm  weather!   But  how  silly  some 


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behave  in  cold  weather!  Hence,  summer  "airing"  is 
lung-wise;  whereas  winter  airing  is  lung-foolish.  In 
both  instances  due  to  the  fact  that  people  care  more 
about  their  civilization-petted  skins  than  they  do  about 
their  nature-bred  lungs. 

It  has  always  been  a  puzzle  to  me  how  people  ex- 
pected to  raise  "healthy"  children  and  maintain  their 
own  health  in  sleeping  rooms  in  which  they  could  not 
raise  palms  and  flowers  the  whole  year  aroimd. 

Don't  imagine  that  the  getting  of  an  hour's  pure  air 
going  to  and  from  the  foulness  of  a  school  room,  or 
shop,  or  office  is  going  to  make  up  for  the  other  twenty- 
three  hours'  poisonous  supply  of  second-hand  or 
breathed  air.  No  more  than  one  hour's  soberness 
makes  up  for  twenty-three  hours'  drunkenness.  In- 
deed, twenty-three  hours'  freshness  of  air  won't  make 
up  for  one  hour's  foulness  of  air.  You,  or  children, 
may  not  mind  it  at  first,  or  at  all,  seemingly,  and  you 
may  fool  your  mind  by  saying,  "I'm  so  used  to  it  that 
I  can't  stand  the  least  bit  of  draft  or  cold  air."  Very 
well.  The  clouds  are  forming  just  the  same.  But, 
instead  of  threatening  you  visibly  from  overhead,  they 
threaten  you  invisibly  from  withinhead;  so,  therefore, 
watch  out !  for  here  comes  your  spell  of  so-called  "cold" 
or  "rheumatiz"  or  "catarrh,"  etc.,  etc. 

And  in  bed  you  go,or  laid  up  you  are,  and  suffer  you 
do,  and  money  you  waste;  but  blind  you  remain,  and 
back  again  you  go  to  your  old  foolish  habits,  until 
Nature  decides  to  dispense  with  your  services  and  dis- 
pose of  your  remains.  Good  enough!  But  the  poor 
babies  and  children  that  sicken  and  suffer  and  perish 
for  want  of  God's  pure  and  free  air,  or  that  are  liter* 


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ally  poisoned  to  death,  or  crippled  for  life,  through 
measles,  and  scarlet  fever,  and  typhoid,  and  pneumonia, 
and  meningitis,  and  tuberculosis,  and  diphtheria  by  the 
foul  breathed  air  of  school  rooms,  and  living  rooms, 
and  play  rooms,  and  bed  rooms!  What  shall  I  say 
to  that?     Murder!     Crime,  sure  enough! 

If  grown-up  people  are  determined  to  carbonize 
themselves  into  misery,  or  bed,  or  the  grave — all  right ; 
but  for  the  love  of  Right  and  Justice  don't  carbonize 
the  children. 

Read  this  letter,  as  it  may  be  your  child's  or  grand- 
child's, or  niece's,  or  nephew's  turn  next,  if  you  don't 
heed  my  warning: 

"Some  years  ago  my  daughter  had  typhoid  fever  and 
meningitis,  which  left  her  weak-minded.  She  is  now 
in  the  asylum  for  feeble-minded  children.  The  doc- 
tors say  it  is  in  the  speech  center  where  the  trouble  is. 
Before  her  sickness  she  was  a  very  bright  girl,  and  if 
she  had  kept  well  three  months  more  would  have  grad- 
uated from  grammar  school  at  thirteen." 

Poor  unfortunate  mother!  How  justly  proud  she 
was  of  her  daughter — "if  she  had  kept  well  three 
months  more  would  have  graduated  from  grammar 
school  at  thirteen!"  But,  instead,  her  daughter  is  a 
graduate  of  the  asylum. 

Poor  unfortunate  mother!  She  believes,  with  the 
doctors,  that  the  trouble  is  "in  the  speech  center." 

How  stupid!  that  year  after  year  the  entire  public 
do  not  seem  to  suspect  that  the  trouble  is  in  the  com- 
mon sense  centers  of  school  boards  and  teachers  and 
physicians. 

Poor  unfortunate  mother!    As  for  the  others — well, 


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what  a  wise  little  chap  "Puck"  is  when  he  exclaims, 
"What  fools  ye  mortals  be!" 

Ventilate  your  inside  and  your  children's — not  here 
and  there,  not  now  and  then,  but  everywhere  and  al- 
ways and  "evermore." 

The  artificial  temperature  of  a  sleeping  room  should 
never  exceed  50  degrees  F.,  and  the  nearer  it  is  to  the 
freezing  point  the  "healthier"  for  man  and  beast.  Cover 
up  all  you  want.  Noses  won't  freeze  and  blood  won't 
congeal.  You're  afraid  of  "colds,"  are  you?  You 
mean  "heats."  Well,  suppose  the  cold  air  from  out- 
side does  chase  out  the  "hot"  air  from  inside — you're 
that  much  ahead  and  better  off,  and  you'll  never 
"catch"  another  "cold"  in  your  life  if  you  don't  begin 
all  over  again  to  stuff  your  system  with  the  "heats" 
which  call  for  "colds"  to  save  you  from  "fevers." 

As  for  the  temperature  of  living,  working  and  school 
rooms — that  is  a  point  which  cannot  be  fixed  by  rule 
or  degrees.  Personally,  I  prefer  to  sit  or  read  or  write 
in  a  room  whose  temperature  does  not  exceed  60  de- 
grees F.  in  cold  weather.  And  I  may  tell  you  that 
I  derive  more  heat  from  such  an  atmosphere  than  can 
possibly  be  had  from  one  of  80  degrees  F.,  although 
the  air  I  breathe  into  my  lungs  contains  20  degrees 
less  heat;  yet  the  surplus  amount  of  heat  and  energy 
producing  oxygen  that  I  inhale  more  than  makes  up 
for  the  difference,  let  alone  the  fact  that  I  am  giving 
brain  and  nerves  and  other  organs  the  essential  where- 
with to  continue  working  and  repairing  and  eliminat- 
ing instead  of  saturating  blood  and  tissues  with  car- 
bonic acid  gas. 

However,  if  you  insist  on  having  the  temperature 


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up  to  70  degrees  F.,  please  do  not  get  into  the  habit 
of  being  content  with  an  occasional  "breath"  or  "whiff" 
of  fresh  or  pure  air,  but  arrange  windows  or  transoms 
in  such  a  way  that  there  is  a  steady,  continuous  incom- 
ing supply  of  outdoor  air  to  displace  the  heated  and 
breathed  indoor  variety.  Open  up  in  such  a  way  that 
the  air-stream  pours  in  very  gently  but  uniformly  all 
day  or  all  night  long.  Keyholes  and  rattling  windows 
and  slits  in  storm  window  sashes  won't  do. 

Unless  the  wind  blows  in  that  direction  it  is  not  suf- 
ficient to  open  only  one  window;  and  as  what  you 
want  is  not  a  "blowing"  wind  but  a  gentle,  steady 
stream,  arrange  your  windows  so  that  the  "inlet"  win- 
dow (side  from  which  the  wind  is  blowing)  is  opened 
much  less  than  the  "outlet"  window.  For  instance, 
suppose  your  windows  face  East  and  South  (or  East 
and  West)  and  the  wind  is  from  the  East,  then  open 
the  lower  sash  of  your  East  window  just  an  inch  or  so 
and  the  lower  or  upper  sash  of  the  South  or  West  win- 
dow a  few  inches.  Then  feel  with  your  hand  opposite 
the  open  one  inch  space.  If  your  hand  can  feel  the 
air-stream  coming  in  when  placed  five  or  six  inches 
from  the  opening  and  does  not  beyond  eight  or  ten 
inches,  then  well  and  good.  Otherwise,  lower  or  raise 
the  sash  until  satisfactory  results  are  felt.  If  the  room 
has  but  one  window,  then  open  also  some  door  or  tran- 
som. 

As  for  the  childish  objection  that  some  make,  "I 
can't  stand  to  have  the  wind  blow  on  me."  Of  course, 
not.  Neither  can  I.  But  what  do  you  do  when  you 
don't  want  the  sunlight  to  "blow"  on  you?  You  don't 
shut  yourself  up  in  pitch  darkness,  do  you?    You  sim- 


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ply  shade  the  direct  blow  of  the  sun-rays.  Well,  why 
not  simply  shade  the  direct  blow  of  the  wind- waves? 
That's  simple. 

It's  funny  how  people  who  barely  escape  death  from 
drowning  will  keep  on  drinking  water  ever  after — 
as  though  it  wasn't  the  same  kind  of  water  that  pretty 
near  killed  them.  And  yet,  because  they  come  pretty 
near  drowning  in  pure  air  (and  "catch  a  cold"),  they 
will  keep  shunning  air  ever  after. 

Wise  little  Puck — that's  why  he  never  grows  old 
and  has  been  an  "Autologist"  since  prehistoric  days. 

2.  AVOID  DRINKING  WHEN  EATING,  as  a 
rule.  Exceptions  to  this  there  are,  of  course ;  but  there 
is  no  question  at  all  that  the  habit  of  drinking  when 
eating  is  upsetting  to  the  digestive,  assimilative  and 
eliminative  functions.  Not  alone  do  liquids  dilute 
(weaken)  the  digestive  juices,  but  they  induce  glut- 
tony and  the  swallowing  of  unmasticated  and  unsali- 
vated  morsels  of  food,  which  then  decompose  or  fer- 
ment in  the  stomach  or  bowels. 

Drink  between  meals.  That's  the  time  your  blood 
and  tissues  need  water  for  purposes  of  dissolving  and 
purifying  and  eliminating  useless  tissue-products. 
Drink  between  meals. 

Animals  are  not  coaxed  or  accustomed  to  drink  with 
their  meals,  nor  should  children  be.  If  they  were  not, 
grown  people  would  never  have  the  injurious  habit. 
Nature  has  provided  the  mouth  with  a  liquefying  and 
swallowing  juice — the  saliva.  Utilize  it  for  eating, 
not  for  spitting,  purposes.  More  of  this  elsewhere  in 
this  book. 


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3.  AVOID  EATING  WHEN  NOT  HUNGRY. 
Never  coax  your  appetite.  If  it  really  needs  coaxing, 
then  you  really  need  scolding.  Coaxing  your  appetite 
is  starving  your  health  and  stuffing  your  ailment.  It  is 
not  nourishing  your  .tissues  or  increasing  your 
strength.  If  you  are  really  "weak"  but  hungerless  it 
is  not  from  the  lack  of  material  in  your  stomach  or 
system,  but  from  the  presence  of  too  much  useless  or 
waste-material,  or  from  the  lack  of  unadulterated  air 
and  water.  Either  too  much  of  the  carbonized  tissue- 
products  from  foods  and  drinks  or  too  little  of  the 
oxygenated  elements  from  air  and  water. 

Strange  as  that  may  seem,  hungerless  people  who 
have  work  to  do  and  who  fancy  that  they  must  have 
some  food  to  do  it  with,  will  find,  by  actual  test,  that 
they  can  draw  more  energy  from  their  brains  and 
muscles  by  living  on  absolutely  nothing  but  pure  air, 
distilled  water,  and  fresh  fruit  juices  until  hunger  reap- 
pears than  by  taking  stimulants  or  tonics  or  so-called 
nourishing,  predigested  foods. 

By  so  doing  you  shall  accomplish  in  a  day  or  two 
what  might  otherwise  take  a  week  or  more,  namely, 
give  your  stomach  and  tissues  a  "lay-off"  for  a  day  or 
two  and  give  your  system  a  chance  to  do  some  oxidiz- 
ing, renovating  and  eliminating. 

4.  AVOID  THE  OVERUSE  OF  TABLE  SALT. 
Call  this  my  "no  salt  theory,"  if  you  like.  But  with 
me  it  is  a  fact  or  conviction,  born  of  experience  and 
confirmed  by  practice  and  results.  .  * 

Salt  ages  people.  Salt  favors  deposits  in  blood  ves- 
sels and  joints.  Salt  robs  the  hearts  or  marrow  of  the 
tissue-cells.     Salt  is  an  enemy  to  good  digestion  and 


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assimilation.  Salt  is  the  most  prolific  cause  of  stom- 
ach, bowel,  kidney,  nerve,  vital  and  sexual  impair- 
ments. It  tends  to  aggravate  catarrh  and  rheuma- 
tism. In  any  but  the  "normal"  amount  found  in  foods, 
table  salt  is  slightly  or  decidedly  injurious  in  propor- 
tion to  the  excess  taken,  though  the  system  becomes 
accustomed  to  it  as  it  does  to  tea,  coffee,  tobacco,  vine- 
gar and  sweets. 

The  average  eater  consumes  at  least  ten  to  twenty 
times  more  than  the  system  requires  in  each  twenty- 
four  hours.  This  necessarily  keeps  the  tissues  and 
fluids  oversalted — as  butter  is.  Salt  "draws"  water 
and  creates  thirst;  but  the  "water"  that  it  draws  from 
your  blood  and  flesh  takes  some  essential  living  pro- 
teid  (albuminoid)  constituents  along;  whereas  the 
water  which  you  drink,  to  substitute  that  which  salt 
abstracts,  is  "dead"  water. 

Another  reason  still  why  salt  is  bad  is  that  its  habit 
so  perverts  your  taste  that  you  swallow  soups  and 
meats  and  vegetables  only  because  they  are  "salty"; 
and,  therefore,  you  hurriedly  swallow  the  mouthful  or 
morsel  in  your  rush  for  the  next,  with  never  a  care 
about  getting  at  the  taste  of  the  food  itself.  Salt  is 
the  main  cause  of  your  "bolting"  foods  and  "gulping" 
soups.  Use  practically  no  table  salt,  except  a  very 
little  in  the  cooking,  and  see  how  instinctively  your 
tongue  will  "search"  each  "bite"  for  its  own  distinctive 
taste,  which  it  will  re-discover  and  re-relish  after  a 
week's  attention  to  proper  eating,  as  later  explained. 

Salted  butter  is  vile  stuff  and  should  never  be  used 
for  eating  or  cooking.  How  very  few  people  eat  but- 
ter and  bread,  soups  and  meats,  vegetables  and  pota- 


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toes,  etc.,  for  the  food's  own  taste  or  their  brains'  and 
body's  ovTi  sake!  And  who,  consequently,  can  brag 
of  having  escaped  ailments  from  the  cradle  till  the 
grave  doth  unsalt  and  unsugar  and  unpickle  them. 
More  of  this  later. 


WHAT  TO   EAT  AND  DRINK 

Explanatory:  The  following  dietary,  if  mixed  with 
Kelf-ventilation  and  self-dilution  (at  proper  times)  and 
self-judgment,  will  answer  the  requirements  of  any 
and  all  organs  and  functions  anywhere  in  the  body. 

As  regards  tea  and  coffee,  beer  and  wine,  some  may 
drink  tea  or  coffee  once  a  day  without  detriment  (ex- 
cepting children),  but  never  twice  or  thrice  a  day  with- 
out punishment;  and  some  may  drink  beer  or  wine 
once  a  day  without  detriment  (excepting  children),  but 
never  twice  or  thrice  without  punishment. 


THE  AUTOLOGIST'S  BREAKFAST. 

This  breakfast  is  the  proper  one  the  year  around; 
but  remember  that  you  are  not  to  eat  when  not  hun- 
gry. If  you  are  used  to  the  "no-breakfast"  plan,  or 
wish  to  adopt  it,  there  is  no  particular  objection. 

I  eat  twice  a  day  and  lunch  on  air  and 
light  all  day  long;  and  when  a  bit  hungry  at 
noon  I  lunch  on  rice  and  cream.  The  cream- 
fat  furnishes  "steam"  and  marrow  for  the  brain, 
and  the  nitrogen  and  phosphates  of  the  rice  supply  re- 
constructive material  for  repairing  and  renewing  the 
"live"  sand  of  the  gray  matter. 

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202  Autology — Study  Thyself 

From  personal  experience  in  hundreds  of  patients 
as  well  as  in  my  own  family  and  self  I  know  of  nothing 
better  in  the  way  of  a  lunch,  toothsome  and  brainsome, 
than  a  dish  of  rice  with  pure  cream. 

My  reason  for  speaking  of  what  to  eat  for  lunch 
under  the  heading  of  breakfast  is  because: 

First,  it  is  better  to  eat  the  rice  and  cream  at 
noon  than  in  the  morning;  and  second,  I  do  not 
approve  of  "breakfast  foods"  in  the  morning.  Men 
and  women  need  something  more  substantial  for 
their  forenoon's  digestive  and  assimilative  functions 
when  the  body  juices  are  fresh  and  alert ;  whereas  they 
require  something  exceedingly  light  and  readily  dif- 
fusible in  the  middle  of  the  day— something  which  does 
not  impoverish  the  blood  of  its  most  essential  ferment- 
making  material;  but  which,  instead,  enriches  the 
blood  with  pure,  readily  assimilable  animal  fat 
(cream)  and  highly  nitrogenized  and  phosphorized 
cereal — such  as  rice. 

On  days  when  I  do  not  feel  the  need  of  even  tax- 
ing my  digestive  apparatus  to  the  extent  of  dispos- 
ing of  rice  and  cream,  I  find  that  I  can  get  all  the 
brain-steam  and  brain-reconstructive  by  sipping  the 
juice  of  two  or  more  oranges  between  the  hours  of 
11  a.  m.  and  1  p.  m.  You  have  no  idea  what 
a  lift  that  is  to  a  fellow's  brain  and  nerves.  However, 
if  you  prefer  to  eat  a  light  breakfast — in  which  case  I 
assume  that  your  occupation  makes  very  little  demand 
on  your  system  for  heat  or  power  and  for  tissue-repair 
— then  my  advice  to  you  is  to  drink  some  "cereal,"  to 
which  you  should  add  a  dish  of  rice.  But  don't  eat 
bread  and  butter  or  toast  if  you  eat  the  rice.     That 


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would  be  not  only  too  much  "starchy"  food  for  you, 
but  it  would  be  mixing  two  kinds  of  "starchy"  foods 
together — which  is  always  bad.  In  that  way  I  find 
that  I  keep  in  excellent  health  and  flesh  and  age, 
though  averaging  a  minimum  of  105  hours  of 
steady  brain  work  every  week  in  the  year.  It  was 
impossible  for  me  to  do  that  when  I  ate  three  ordi- 
nary meals  a  day.  I  am  of  the  opinion  that,  as  a  rule, 
it  is  better  for  most  people  to  eat  a  good  breakfast  in 
the  morning. 

1.  EGGS.  Always  soft  boiled  or  fried,  so  that  the 
"white"  melts  in  the  mouth.  Use  absolutely  no  salt  or 
pepper,  and  do  not  even  use  salted  butter  in  "frying" 
eggs.  Fry  them  in  unsalted  butter.  You  may  occa- 
sionally change  to  "scrambled"  eggs,  in  which  case 
they  should  be  "scrambled"  mellow,  which  is  done  by 
adding  one  tablespoonful  of  cream  to  an  egg,  and 
never  letting  the  butter  turn  brown  in  the  pan  before 
putting  in  the  eggs;  and  be  sure  to  keep  up  a  very 
slow  heat  from  start  to  finish.  This  insures  a  soft 
"scrambled"  egg,  which  is  quite  as  digestible  as  a  soft 
boiled  egg,  and  very  "delicious."  If  you  imagine  that 
you  cannot  eat  eggs  without  salt,  then  at  first  use  a 
little  "celery  salt"  until  nature  restores  to  you  your 
original  taste  for  what  is  in  the  articles  of  food,  in- 
stead of  for  what  you  have  been  artificially  adding  to 
them. 

2.  TOASTED  BREAD.  Never  eat  fresh  or  un- 
toasted  bread,  and  do  not  butter  same  with  anything 
but  unsalted  butter  if  you  can  possibly  help  it. 

Change  off  from  "white"  to  "whole-wheat"  bread 
three  or  four  times  a  week,  especially  if  given  to  cos- 
tiveness. 


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Toasted  bread  does  not  constipate,  as  so  many  per- 
sons make  themselves  believe ;  but  whole-wheat  bread 
is  a  more  natural  and  therefore  a  more  appropriate 
food  for  those  who  are  troubled  with  "constipation." 
By  "whole-wheat"  bread  is  not  meant  "Graham" 
bread.    A  good  make  of  the  latter  is  all  right,  too. 

Avoid  "biscuits"  and  "buns"  and  "gems"  and  "crack- 
ers" and  all  such  pasty  substitutes  for  bread. 

Zwieback  is  an  excellent  form  of  bread. 

BACON.  If  you  like  it,  eat  a  little,  sliced  very  thin 
and  fried  crisp,  but  not  fried  with  the  eggs.  Always 
fry  bacon  alone.  The  less  salty,  the  more  digestible 
it  is. 

DRINKS.  Drink  nothing  if  you  wish.  If  tea  or  cof- 
fee does  not  "rile"  your  nerves  or  stomach,  you  may 
drink  a  small  cup;  but  never  drink  coffee  that  has 
boiled  or  "stood." 

A  cup  of  good  "cereal"  coffee  is  preferable  in  every 
way;  or  drink  merely  a  few  swallows  of  hot  water. 
But  never  drink  milk  (or  milk  and  water)  or  cocoa  or 
chocolate  and  the  like. 

Raw  eggs  and  milk,  or  "cooked"  eggs  and  milk,  is 
not  a  good  "digestible"  mixture  for  any  stomach, 
though  it  may  seem  to  "agree." 

Breakfast  on  raw  milk  alone,  or  on  raw  eggs  alone, 
if  you  wish;  but  do  not  mix  these  two  animals  foods 
in  your  stomach  at  the  same  meal.  Both  are  nitroge- 
nous or  "albuminoid"  foods,  and  the  stomach  cells  of 
each  person  have  their  own  "preference"  for  the  "al- 
bumin" of  either  the  milk  or  the  egg.  Hence,  the 
stomach  digests  the  "preferred"  one  before  it  attacks 
the  other.    So  that,  if  the  amount  of  the  "first  choice" 


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is  sufficient  to  satisfy  or  satiate  the  "appetite"  of  the 
stomach,  the  "second  choice"  is  left  untouched,  there- 
fore undigested,  to  pass  into  the  intestines,  where  it 
undergoes  fermentative  changes.  This  point  is  beau- 
tifully illustrated  by  studying  the  "habits"  of  the  beer- 
yeast  cell,  when  fed  dextrose  and  levulose,  which  are 
two  forms  of  the  same  sugar  (called  saccharose).  The 
beer-yeast  cell  always  attacks  and  digests  the  dex- 
trose first,  and  never  goes  for  the  levulose  until  every 
particle  of  the  dextrose  is  disposed  of. 

Again,  place  apples  and  oranges  before  a  child.  The 
child  will  fill  up  on  one  or  the  other  first,  fully  intend- 
ing to  eat  the  "second  choice"  next;  but  it  doesn't — 
simply  because  it  is  "full"  or  satiated  with  "first 
choice."  Stomachs  are  children,  always — ^morning, 
noon  and  night — from  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 

FRUITS.  Never  with  other  foods  for  breakfast,  or 
within  less  than  about  one  hour  before  breakfast ;  but, 
if  one  choose,  one  may  breakfast  entirely  on  some  one 
variety  of  fresh  fruit — say,  oranges,  or  grapes,  or  ap- 
ples, or  pears,  or  peaches,  or  melons;  but  never  mix 
two  varieties  in  your  stomach  at  the  same  time,  and 
never  with  any  other  article  of  diet  whatsoever.  By 
"fresh  fruit"  I  do  not  mean  cooked,  or  dried,  or 
canned,  or  preserved  fruit — I  mean  just  and  only  fruit 
as  fruits  grow  on  trees  or  bushes  or  stems. 

Breakfast,  consisting  of  any  of  the  above  foods,  and 
eaten  as  above  suggested,  will  never  be  responsible 
for  any  indigestion,  or  mal-nutrition,  or  mal-assimila- 
tion,  or  autointoxication.  And,  as  it  happens,  it  is  a 
breakfast  which  can  be  "fed"  to  a  child  from  the  time 


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that  the  child  has  a  few  teeth  to  chew  with,  even 
though  the  child  be  but  six  months  old. 

And  that  breakfast  contains  more  brain  and  brawn 
constituents  to  the  grain  and  the  thimble  than  any 
other,  with  the  least  or  minimum  waste  or  residue  for 
the  digestive  apparatus  to  dispose  of  or  be  clogged 
with. 

Eat  it,  and  children  will  follow  suit,  and  grow  up 
to  beat  you  in  the  quality  of  their  brain  and  marrow. 
And  you  shall  have  accomplished  the  chief  object  of 
Autology — namely,  breeding  brain  and  marrow  into 
the  coming  generation. 

I  have  heard,  and  still  hear,  people  brag  of  eating 
"any  old  thing,"  as  mush,  oatmeal,  porridge,  ham, 
cakes,  etc.,  for  breakfast,  and  say,  "Look  at  me!  Do 
I  look  sickly?"  No,  indeed,  you  don't  look  sickly; 
but  I  can't  see  into  your  blood  vessels  and  kidneys, 
etc.,  although  I  do  know  that  they  are  getting  aged 
and  sickly — although  I  do  know  that  if  you  survived 
many  years  to  recall  the  joke,  it  would  be  "mean"  of 
me  to  remind  you  then  of  what  you  are  now  bragging. 
You  forget  that  the  idea  of  "raising"  or  "feeding" 
vegetables  and  fruits  and  animals  is  not  alone  to  make 
them  feel  and  look  "healthy"  now,  but  it  is  also  to 
make  them  "marketable"  or  "valuable"  by  and  by. 
So  it  should  be  with  you  and  children;  otherwise  it 
had  been  better  for  you  and  them  had  you  and  they 
never  been. 

But  never  give  tea  or  coffee  to  children — never. 

"Cereal"  with  cream  is  good  for  them.  Milk  is  not 
a  bit  better  for  children  than  it  is  for  you. 


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THE  AUTOLOGIST'S  DINNER. 

At  Noon  or  Evening. 

FRESH  MEATS.  By  "fresh"  meats  I  do  not  mean 
ham,  or  sausages,  or  corn  beef,  or  canned  meats,  ^r 
dried  meats,  or  deviled  meats,  and  the  like.  I  mean 
beef,  or  fowl,  or  fish,  or  lamb,  or  veal,  etc.,  as  it  is  mar- 
keted "fresh"  after  killing.  Do  not  fry  or  cook  meats 
(or  fish)  in  lard  or  "grease"  or  "oil."  And  the  sooner 
you  acquire  the  habit  of  using  only  unsalted  butter, 
instead  of  the  salted,  in  cooking,  the  better  for  your 
digestion  and  nutrition.  And  the  sooner  you  dis- 
acquire  the  habit  of  salting  and  peppering  the  meats 
(or  fish)  at  table,  the  better  for  your  digestion  and 
nutrition.  And  the  sooner  you  acquire  the  habit  of 
using  a  very,  very  little  salt  in  cooking  or  preparing 
any  food  or  "dish,"  the  better  for  your  digestion  and 
nutrition. 

The  craving,  or  liking,  for  salt  is  an  acquired  taste, 
which  some  can  disacquire  very  easily;  not  so  with 
others.  So  it  is  with  tobacco  and  liquor.  Quitting  the 
use  of  tobacco  is  never  injurious,  but  is  always  bene- 
ficial.    So  it  is  with  table  salt. 

The  less  "seasoned"  foods  are,  the  less  likely  one 
is  to  overeat,  and  the  more  digestible  and  assimilable 
they  are. 

POTATOES.  Potatoes  should  be  baked  or  boiled 
so  as  to  be  cooked  "mealy,"  and  never  fried. 

Potatoes  and  meat  (or  fish)  go  together  much  bet- 
ter than  bread  and  meat  (or  fish).  Never  eat  bread 
and  potatoes  at  the  same  meal,  because  bread  and 


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potatoes  are  two  forms  of  "starchy"  foods,  and  your 
digestive  apparatus  has  its  preference;  therefore  it 
will  digest  the  one  first  and  let  the  other  ferment  or 
decompose  and  accumulate  as  waste  or  poisonous  ma- 
terial. At  best,  it  will  be  stored  away  in  your  liver 
and  tissues  as  an  over-stock  of  glycogen,  which  is  sure 
to  make  you  "bilious,"  or  "rheumatic,"  or  "catarrhal," 
or  over-fat.  For  the  same  reason,  do  not  eat  rice  and 
bread,  or  rice  and  potatoes,  or  corn  or  rye  or  barley  or 
buckwheat  or  any  other  so-called  "starchy  food"  when 
eating  potatoes  or  bread. 

Always  cook  potatoes  with  the  peel  on.  The  most 
valuable  "medicinal"  constituents  of  the  potato,  as  well 
as  its  most  delicious  "taste,"  are  found  next  to  the  skin. 

Of  all  "starchy  foods,"  the  best  to  eat  with  meats 
or  fish  is  potato,  cooked  "mealy."  The  next  choice  is 
rice. 

Do  not  eat  "cold"  potato. 

VEGETABLES.  Always  eat  some  "vegetable" 
when  eating  meat  and  potato. 

Some  "vegetables"  are  best  eaten  cooked,  and  some 
raw. 

Never  eat  "canned"  vegetables  when  the  "fresh" 
are  available. 

With  few  exceptions,  do  not  eat  more  than  one  kind 
of  vegetables  at  the  same  meal,  but  eat  plenty  of  that 
one  kind.  For  instance,  if  you  eat  raw  tomatoes,  eat 
raw  tomatoes  and  no  other  vegetable.  So,  also,  if  you 
eat  celery,  or  lettuce,  or  cress,  or  cabbage,  or  carrots, 
or  parsnips,  or  spinach,  or  asparagus,  or  peas,  or  string 
beans,  etc.  Preparing  vegetables  with  cream  or  milk 
gravies,   or  vinegar  juices,  is  usually  objectionable. 


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The  only  exception  that  I  know  of  is  in  using 
a  little  sweet  cider  vinegar  on  fresh  or  crisp  let- 
tuce leaves  (but  not  allowing  them  to  soak  in  the 
vinegar).  Cabbage  should  not  be  vinegared,  nor 
spinach,  either.  The  very  best  way  to  prepare  let- 
tuce is  to  squeeze  a  little  lemon  juice  and  sprin- 
kle a  little  sugar  on  each  leaf  as  one  eats  it.  In  hot 
weather,  this  alone  makes  a  delicious  and  ideal  "re- 
freshing" lunch  for  most  people. 

Among  the  "canned"  vegetables  the  least  objec- 
tionable are  peas  and  tomatoes.  Be  sure  and  use 
none  but  the  best  "brands."  Do  not  drain  away  the 
fluid  or  juice  in  which  the  peas  are  "canned,"  but  cook 
the  peas  in  it.  Cooking  tomatoes  with  bread  crumbs 
or  crackers  or  milk  makes  a  very  "indigestible"  mix- 
ture. 

Young,  tender  string  beans  and  young,  tender  beets 
are  very  nourishing;  but  do  not  prepare  with  vinegar 
or  gravies.    Young  carrots  are  excellent. 

As  before  stated,  limit  yourself  to  one  variety  or 
kind  of  any  of  the  foregoing  or  other  vegetables  at  one 
meal,  and  eat  them  (whether  raw  or  cooked)  without 
adding  to  them,  or  changing  them,  if  at  all  possible. 
A  little  celery  salt  in  the  water  or  fluid  in  which  cab- 
bage, or  carrots,  or  beets,  or  peas,  or  string  beans,  are 
boiled  improves  their  taste,  of  course,  and  does  not 
affect  their  digestibility,  although  much  salt  does. 

DESSERT.  Nothing.  Certainly  not  puddings  or 
pies  or  pastry  of  any  kind;  nor  fruits,  nor  nuts,  nor 
"ices,"  nor  cheese.    What  then?    Let  us  see. 

You've  had  enough  to  eat,  haven't  you?  The  "inner 
man"  is  full,  isn't  he?  You  want  to  "top  off"  with 
something  "sweet"   or  that   tastes   "good,"   do    you? 


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Well,  then,  if  you'll  wait  about  two  or  three  hours 
you'll  find  that  any  one  of  those  "tastes-good"  things'U 
taste  lots  better.  And,  what's  more,  they  won't  quar- 
rel with  what's  in  your  stomach.  Suppose  you  are 
"boarding  out,"  or  living  at  a  hotel,  and  you  want 
your  money's  worth — is  that  a  reason  for  wanting  to 
cater  to  indigestion,  or  the  doctor,  or  the  undertaker? 
Take  your  fruits  along,  like  a  good  child,  and  relish 
same  in  the  middle  of  the  afternoon  or  before  going 
to  bed,  if  you  don't  forget  it.  You  can't  do  that  with 
puddings,  and  pies,  and  "ices,"  and  "preserves,"  can 
you?  Well,  then— don't.  They'll  never  miss  you,  but 
you'll  miss  many  an  ache  and  a  pain  and  a  spell  of 
sickness. 

What  about  drinks  vrith  dinner?  The  best  and  ab- 
solutely essential  "drink"  is  your  saliva,  and  the  worst 
and  absolutely  non-essential  "drinks"  with  dinner  are 
each  and  all  of  the  others.  By  that  I  do  not  mean  to 
say  that  som.e  of  the  "drinks"  often  taken  v/ith  din- 
ner are  necessarily  harmful;  but  they  certainly  are 
not  necessary  or  beneficial,  neither  in  health,  nor  in 
sickness,  nor  in  convalescence.  Sure  enough,  beer  or 
wine,  tea  or  coffee,  water  or  milk,  and  so  forth,  will 
make  you  swallow  oftener,  and  bigger  and  more  mor- 
sels of  food,  but  there  isn't  another  drink  than  saliva 
that  will  help  you — your  organs  and  tissues — to  digest 
and  assimilate  what  you  eat.  But  any  and  all  drinks 
will  and  do  dilute  all  your  digestive  juices,  and  will 
and  do  impair  their  quality  and  activity. 

An  occasional  departure  from  this  regime  won't 
hurt;  but  it  certainly  ought  to  be  adopted  and  lived 
up  to  as  the  rule,  permitting  special  occasions  only  to 
coax  one  to  break  that  rule. 


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SOUPS. 

I  haven't  said  a  word  yet  about  soups,  and  that  is 
because  I  don't  like  to  talk  about  "indelicate"  subjects 
at  the  table.  You  see,  soups  and  broths  and  beef  teas, 
as  almost  universally  made,  are  infusions  of  the  refuse 
which  the  animal's  blood  and  tissues  happened  to  re- 
tain at  the  time  of  its  death — only  this,  that  people 
deceive  themselves  (by  "flavoring"  or  "seasoning"  the 
water  or  fluid  in  which  said  refuse  is  dissolved)  into 
believing  that  they  are  imbibing  the  substance  and 
essence  of  the  "nutritious"  instead  of  the  substance 
and  essence  of  the  "excrementitious."  Pure  (exclu- 
sively) vegetable  soups,  eaten  with  the  vegetables — 
yes;  other  soups — no — not  for  an  autologist.  Beef 
teas  or  extracts  or  bouillons  for  bacterial  cultures 
(feeding  and  raising  microbes) — ^yes.  Never  for  the 
human  sick  or  well  kind. 

As  for  pickles,  catsups  and  the  like,  they  are  neces- 
sarily tabooed,  as  they  contain  absolutely  no  nourish- 
ment, and  are  not  digestible.  They  are  not  even  stim- 
ulants. They  make  you  eat  more?  Maybe — but  they 
surely  make  you  "sicken"  sooner,  swifter  and  surer. 


THE  AUTOLOGIST'S  SUPPER  (EVENING) 
OR  LUNCH  (NOON). 

All  men  and  women  whose  occupation  or  station  in 
life  does  not  impose  "hard  manual  labor"  are  better 
off  with  only  two  meals  a  day — namely,  a  good  break- 


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fast  in  the  morning  and  a  good  dinner  in  the  evening  j 
or  a  good  breakfast  at  noon  and  a  good  dinner  in  the 
evening;  or  a  good  dinner  at  noon  and  a  moderate 
supper  in  the  evening.  All  who  strain  their  muscles 
from  morning  till  evening  can,  as  a  rule,  utilize  and 
dispose  of  three  good  meals  a  day.  Otherwise,  no  sys- 
tem can,  and  some  of  the  extra  food  is  stored  away 
as  useless  waste,  to  be  disposed  of  as  "biliousness,"  or 
"rheumatism,"  or  "catarrh,"  or  "discharge,"  or  to  be 
burned  up  as  "fever."  I  cannot  take  up  each  occupa- 
tion and  prescribe  for  each  individual,  whether  he  or 
she  should  or  should  not  eat  a  lunch  or  a  third  meal. 
However,  I  can  help  to  guide  you  fairly  well  in  deter- 
mining this  problem  for  yourself. 

If  you  have  been  in  the  habit  of  eating  three  meals  a 
day,  adopt  either  one  of  the  following  "lunch"  or  "sup- 
per" for  your  third  meal: 

Either,  one  variety  of  some  fresh  raw  fruit,  and 
nothing  else; 

Or,  one  variety  of  some  fresh  raw  or  cooked  so- 
called  "green  vegetable,"  and  nothing  else; 

Or,  repeat  your  breakfast,  and  nothing  else; 

Or,  a  dish  of  rice  with  cream,  and  nothing  else. 
But  the  rice  must  have  been  cooked  some  three  hours 
in  a  double  boiler.     Sweeten  to  taste. 

Or,  a  cup  of  well  made  and  well  baked  "custard" 
(such  as  New  England  housewives  know  how  to 
make),  and  nothing  else; 

Or  (but  not  later  than  noon),  some  one  variety  of 
nuts,  and  nothing  else. 

If  men  and  women  who  are  engaged  in  business  or 
clerical  or  professional  work  would  sit  down  at  noon 


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to  a  lunch  consisting  of  nothing  but  rice  and  cream,  or 
just  sip  two  or  three  cups  of  warm  (in  winter)  or  cold 
(in  summer)  "cereal  coffee;"  and  then  spend  one-half 
hour  in  a  "pleasure"  walk  or  talk  or  recreation — there 
would  be  no  doctor's  bills  to  pay  and  business  would 
not  suffer  from  headaches  or  other  aches. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

"Condensed"  milk  is  worse  than  none.  Evaporated 
cream  is  permissible,  if  you  cannot  possibly  get  the 
natural.  Eat  no  dried  or  stewed  fruits,  except  as  a 
medicine,  and  then  only  when  you  are  "fasting"  dur- 
ing that  half  day  or  whole  day. 

Do  not  eat  "canned"  fruits  or  berries  (even  the 
home-made  kind)  with  your  meals.  They'll  do  as  a 
"relish"  between  meals,  occasionally. 

Avoid  sardines  and  all  smoked  fish  and  meat  and 
the  like,  except  when  out  camping,  hunting  or  fishing. 

Boiled  barley  with  cream  is  good;    so  is  hominy. 

Well  baked  sweet  potatoes  are  all  right  instead  of 
the  ordinary  potatoes,  but  not  in  addition  to,  or  with 
bread  or  other  "starchy"  food. 

If  "starved"  or  "empty"  in  the  middle  of  the  after- 
noon eat  some  fresh  fruit. 


214  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

ONIONS. 

I've  had  to  "quarantine"  onions — not  for  the  reason 
you're  thinking  of,  but  because  they  are  nature's  most 
valuable  medicinal  vegetable.  They  contain  some 
nourishment,  but  their  value  is  chiefly  in  that  there  is 
in  onion-juice  some  as  yet  unknown  constituents 
which  are  absorbed  by  the  blood,  carried  to  the  tis- 
sues and  finally  to  the  lungs,  where  they  are  liberated 
in  the  volatile  or  "smelling"  form.  In  bronchial  af- 
fections, as  well  also  as  in  all  forms  of  catarrhal 
troubles,  the  eating  of  raw  onions  once  or  twice  a  day 
is  positively  beneficial.  The  great  trouble  with  peo- 
ple who  eat  onions  is  that  they  usually  eat  too  much 
other  foods  with  them,  or  they  mix  certain  other  ar- 
ticles of  diet  which  nullify  or  kill  the  remedial  virtues 
of  the  volatile  substances  contained  in  the  onion. 

Onion  is  a  vegetable  which  may  safely  be  eaten,  raw 
or  cooked,  with  any  other  vegetable,  and  practically 
with  all  manner  of  "dishes;"  but  bear  in  mind  that 
pickled  onions  are  no  longer  onions.  They  may  taste 
good,  pickled,  but  they  do  no  good,  pickled. 

"Fried  onions,"  with  steak  or  fried  potatoes,  is  an 
abominable  dish.  There  is  more  medicinal  value  in 
raw  than  in  cooked  onions. 


BABY'S  DRINKS  AND  FOODS 

I.  BEFORE  BIRTH.  The  unborn  child's  breakfast, 
dinner,  supper  and  "lunches"  are  obtained  through  the 
mother,  of  course.  They  reach  him  "ready-made,"  but 
not  "digested"  nor  "assimilated."  The  child's  own 
tissue-cells  have  to  re-digest  and  re-assimilate  the 
mother's  blood;  they  have  to  accept  and  do  the  best 
possible  with  the  gaseous  and  liquid  and  solid  com- 
pounds, suitable  and  unsuitable  as  well,  which  the 
mother's  blood  prepares  or  manufactures  with  the  ele- 
ments of  the  light  and  air  and  liquids  and  foods  which 
she  gets.  The  child,  fortunately,  is  not  forced  to  utilize 
the  "unsuitable,"  because  by  a  wise  provision  of  na- 
ture there  exists  between  the  blood  supply  of  the 
mother  and  the  blood  supply  of  the  infant  a  "refining" 
plant,  called  "placenta,"  or  "after-birth."  I  am  not 
able  to  prove  beyond  a  shadow  of  a  doubt  that  no  poi- 
son ever  reaches  the  infant  directly  through  the 
mother's  blood  or  through  its  own  umbilical  cord. 
However,  experience  tends  very  strongly  to  confirm 
the  opinion  that  whatever  diseases  the  "fetus"  (un- 
born) contracts  are  contracted  through  the  poison 
which  escapes  in  or  with  the  "amniotic  fluid,"  which 
is  known  as  the  "waters"  in  which  the  fetus  floats. 
Therefore,  with  the  bare  possibility  of  a  rare  excep- 
tion, it  is  safe  to  assert  that,  no  matter  what  th« 

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mother  drinks  or  eats  or  does,  the  infant,  if  bom  alive, 
is  bom  as  healthy  and  sound  and  sane  as  any  infant 
ever  is,  as  far  as  the  make-up  and  function  of  its  or- 
gans and  tissues  are  concerned.  Accordingly,  the  one 
to  suffer  from  improper  living  and  behaving  is  almost 
always  the  mother  herself,  before  and  during  the  time 
of  "confinement."  This  is  further  supported  by  the 
fact  that  nature  frequently  decides  on  producing  "pre- 
mature" and  "still"  births,  rather  than  running  the  risk 
of  producing  a  sick  or  sickly  infant. 

But,  aside  from  this  doubt,  and  for  the  mother's  own 
sake,  it  is  proper  to  breathe  and  drink  and  eat  and  be- 
have the  best  she  is  capable  of  knowing  how.  And 
that  is  to  get  for  herself  the  best  of  light  and  air  and 
foods,  and  to  go  along  about  her  business  as  if  there 
was  nothing  out  of  the  ordinary,  as  long  as  she  feels 
capable  of  doing  up  to  the  last  day,  which  becomes 
her  infant's  first  day.  So  doing  would  make  it  almost 
impossible  for  outsiders  or  insiders  to  sicken  any  child, 
for  the  mother  would  "have  an  eye"  to  the  light  and 
air  and  "nurse"  that  the  infant  should  have. 

2.  THE  FIRST  YEAR.  During  the  first  eight 
months  of  life  there  is  no  question  at  all  that  "mother's 
milk"  is  the  only  "fit"  and  natural  food  and  drink  for 
the  baby.  The  lack  of  milk  in  a  mother's  breast,  or  the 
presence  of  bad  milk  in  it,  is  never  accidental,  but  is 
always  due  to  downright  ignorance.  The  fault,  natu- 
rally, is  not  always  the  mother's;  but  when  it  isn't,  it 
is  always  somebody's  who  ought  to  know,  or  is  being 
paid  on  that  supposition.  Decent  light  and  air  and 
water  and  foods  always  manufacture  plenty  of  good, 
substeuitial,   nourishing   mother's   milk.     But  stifling 


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and  carbonized  air  and  sloppy  drinks  or  foods  cannot 
but  compel  a  breast  to  turn  out  a  poor  quality  or  a 
scarcity  of  milk.  Besides,  don't  you  know  that  the 
infant  has  "arrived"?  That  he  is  entitled  to  the  light 
and  air  as  well  as  his  papa  or  midwife  or  doctor?  If 
you  don't  know  that,  then  thank  God  for  letting  him 
get  sick  and  die  now,  rather  than  when  he  becomes 
the  pride  and  joy  of  your  later  days.  If  you  don't 
know  that,  you're  not  deserving  of  being  blessed  with 
the  child,  any  more  than  the  child  is  deserving  of  hav- 
ing to  suffer  at  the  hands  of  Ignorance. 

When  the  child  is  seven  or  eight  months  old,  and 
you  begin  to  think  of  "weaning"  him,  then  feed  him 
as  follows :  Fry  an  egg  in  sweet  (unsalted)  butter  on 
a  very  slow  fire,  spooning  the  hot  butter  over  the  yel- 
low just  enough  to  warm  it  through  without  cooking 
it.  Then  scoop  the  yellow  (not  with  the  "white") 
into  a  warmed  saucer,  and  let  baby  try  to  help  himself 
to  it  with  a  little  spoon  as  he  has  seen  you  do.  If  you 
feed  it  to  him,  go  very  slow.  That's  for  his  breakfast. 
In  the  process  of  cooking  the  butter  must  not  become 
brown  and  part  of  the  "white"  of  the  egg  must  remain 
soft. 

About  noontime  prepare  a  "saucer"  of  rice  one  day, 
or  one  of  oatmeal  another  day;  but  only  as  follows; 
Cook  it  in  a  double  boiler,  on  a  slow  fire,  for  at  least 
three  hours.  Use  distilled  water.  Then  strain  the 
boiled  mass  through  a  fine  "hair-sieve"  and  little  by 
little  stir  up  some  pure  cream  with  it,  until  it  becomes 
quite  "thin."  Feed  this  very  slowly,  with  a  small 
spoon.  Also  prepare  a  "saucer"  of  v/ell-cooked,  real 
"mealy"  potatoes;  put  through  a  sieve  and  beat  with 


2i8  Autology — Study   Thyself 

pure  cream  until  it  has  the  consistency  of  thin  jelly. 
But  be  sure  that  it  is  served  warm. 

Serve  the  egg-yellow  in  the  morning,  the  potato- 
cream  about  II  a.  m.,  and  the  rice-cream  or  oatmeal- 
cream  about  4  or  5  p.  m. 

As  regards  milk,  always  use  milk  that  is  almost  all 
cream,  and  mix  same  with  distilled  water  in  the  pro- 
portion of  about  one-third  to  one-half  of  cream.  This, 
remember,  is  not  a  drink,  but  it  is  a  food,  and,  there- 
fore, should  be  swallowed  only  a  little  at  a  time  and  as 
slowly  as  the  rice  or  potato  mixture. 

3.  AFTER  THE  FIRST  YEAR.  When  "baby"  be- 
gins to  have  teeth  to  chew  with,  either  before  or  after 
he  is  a  year  old,  keep  up  the  dishes  described  above, 
and  begin  to  test  him  with  the  whole  of  the  egg  and  a 
bit  of  well-toasted  bread.  At  first  mix  only  a  little  of 
the  "white"  with  the  yellow,  making  sure  that  the 
white  is  very  soft  and  mellow.  I  take  it  for  granted,  of 
course,  that  he  has  seen  you  chewing  things  thor- 
oughly and  taking  unchewed  bits  or  morsels  out  of 
your  mouth  at  table.  Hence,  you  may  depend  on  his 
instinct  to  do  likewise,  if  he  gets  a  particle  of  anything 
that  doesn't  readily  dissolve  in  his  mouth.  But,  for 
goodness'  sake,  don't  scold  him  or  force  him  to  jswal- 
low  what  seems  swallowable  to  you,  but  which  his 
tongue  picks  out  of  his  mouth.  Remember  that  your 
child's  tongue  knows  its  business  at  birth  and  during 
the  first  year  or  two  of  existence  better  than  it  is  per- 
mitted to  know  later.  Never  force  any  rejected  bit  or 
spoonful  of  food  on  your  child  or  anybody's. 

As  soon  as  a  child  has  some  "chewing"  or  molar 
teeth,  let  him  eat  as  you  do  if  your  diet  is  patterned 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  219 

after  what  is  recommended  in  this  book.  But  don't 
ever  give  him  any  tea  or  coffee.  Naturally,  he  wants 
something  to  drink  when  he  sees  you  drinking  tea  or 
coffee.  Well,  give  him  a  small  cup  of  "cereal"  with 
cream  and  let  him  spoon  it  out  or  spill  it  into  or  onto 
himself  the  best  he  can.  Twice  or  oftener  a  day  will 
not  hurt  him. 

Don't  feed  him  "breakfast"  foods.  After  he  is  two 
and  a  half  or  three  years  old,  give  him  a  dish  of 
rice  with  cream  and  a  little  sugar  for  lunch  or 
when  he  teases  for  "something"  to  eat.  Never  give 
him  fresh  or  untoasted  bread.  Never  use  any  but 
sweet  unsalted  butter.  You  may  sometimes  spread  a 
little  taste  of  home-made  jam  or  some  honey  on  the 
buttered  (unsalted)  toast.  In  the  way  of  meat,  he 
may  have  some  when  you  do,  as  soon  as  he  can  chew 
— say,  when  he  is  about  12  or  18  months  old.  But  al- 
ways pick  out  the  tenderest  piece  of  the  steak  or  chop 
or  chicken  and  cut  it  up  very  fine.  Let  him  feed  him- 
self with  a  tiny  spoon,  always  telling  him  to  chew  and 
chew  it  well  and  then  to  spit  it  out.  The  same  advice 
applies  to  vegetables.  The  most  appropriate  vegeta- 
bles are  tender  carrots,  small  green  peas,  green  string- 
beans,  parsnips  and  onions.  These  should  be  well 
cooked.  Tomatoes  may  be  given  cooked  or  raw.  Don't 
ever  feed  baby  two  kinds  of  vegetables  at  one  meal, 
and  do  not  prepare  with  vinegar  or  gravies. 

Pure,  strained  orange  juice  with  or  without  distilled 
water  is  not  only  an  excellent  drink  for  babies,  but  it  is 
the  very  best  corrective  for  constipation,  even  when 
baby  is  only  a  few  weeks  old,  and  it  beats  soothing 
syrups  and  pain-killers  and  peppermint  drops  all  to 
smithereens. 


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I  wish  to  make  a  few  pointed  remarks  about  Bab/s 
light  and  air. 

Listen ! 

Do  leaves  grow  on  trees  just  for  fun  or  looks? 

Or,  do  not  leaves  grow  on  trees  to  serve  the  nutri- 
tive and  vitalizing  and  electric  purpose  of  the  roots, 
hidden  in  the  darkness  of  the  soggy  earth?  Are  not 
leaves  the  ears  and  eyes  and  tongues  and  stomachs  and 
electric  "cells"  of  the  roots? 

Does  hair  grow  on  heads  just  for  fun  or  looks? 

Or,  does  not  hair  grov/  on  heads  to  serve  the  nutri- 
tive and  vitalizing  and  electric  purpose  of  the  gray 
matter,  hidden  in  the  darkness  of  the  soggy  cranium? 
Is  not  the  head-hair  one  of  the  sense-organs  of  the 
brain,  that  absorbs  and  transmits  the  vitalizing  ele- 
ments of  the  light  and  of  the  atmosphere? 

Listen  again! 

Why  does  hair  grow  in  the  arm-pits?  To  prevent 
chafing  or  soreness.  "Why  does  it  grow  on  the  head? 
Not  to  prevent  chafing,  surely.  Then,  why?  My  an- 
swer is :  For  the  same  reason  that  leaves  grow  on  the 
top  of  trees,  on  branches  and  twigs. 

Therefore,  do  you  not  understand  how  foolish  it  is 
to  bonnet  or  cap  infants'  or  children's  heads?  Just 
exactly  as  foolish  as  it  would  be  to  bonnet  or  cap  flow- 
ers' or  trees'  leaves. 

Light  and  air  are  not  so  much  a  leaf-food  or  tonic, 
as  the  leaf  is  an  organ  which  absorbs  and  transmits 
food  or  tonic  from  light  and  air  to  the  roots.  So,  light 
and  air  are  not  so  much  a  hair-food  or  tonic,  as  the  hair 
is  an  organ  which  absorbs  and  transmits  food  or  tonic 
from  the  light  and  air  to  the  brain. 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  221 

Hence,  by  bonnetting  or  hatting  babies  and  children, 
you  rob  them  of  a  most  essential  brain-food  and  tonic. 

Notwithstanding  that  this  subject  of  "How  to  Raise 
Brains'*  demands  devoting  a  dozen  volumes  to  it,  still 
I  am  confident  that  the  foregoing  instructions  and  the 
hints  dispersed  throughout  this  book  are  sufficient  to 
enable  parents  who  have  endowed  themselves  wath 
some  judgment  to  "raise"  brainy  and  healthy  and 
sturdy  children. 


NATURAL   REMEDIES 

Natural  remedies  consist  of: 

Light, 

Air, 

Water, 

Fruit  juices, 

Vegetable  juices. 

Work, 

Exercise, 

Pleasures, 

Cleanliness, 

Sleep,  and,  I  presume, 

Money.  Still,  if  you  take  into  you  the  right  qual- 
ity or  "brand"  of  all  the  others,  you'll  have  no  trouble 
making  money — in  time  and  sickness  saved. 


LIGHT. 

There's  the  natural  and  the  artificial  "make"  of 
light.  The  artificial  may  come  from  a  candle,  or  lamp, 
or  gas,  or  electricity.  The  least  objectionable  of  the 
artificial  lights  is  the  electric,  because  it  does  not  con- 
taminate the  air.  The  other  varieties  do ;  therefore  it 
is  essential   that  you   bear  in   mind  this   fact — that 

22» 


Autopathy— Cure  Thyself  223 

when  you  light  a  lamp,  or  a  gas  jet,  you  are  virtually 
and  actually  introducing  an  oxygen-consumer  and  a 
carbonic  gas-producer,  in  the  way  of  a  light-flame, 
which,  according  to  its  size,  consumes  as  much  oxy- 
gen and  exhales  as  much  carbonic  acid  gas  as  if  eight 
to  sixteen  people  were  in  the  room  with  you. 

Natural  (or  day)  light  is  as  essential  to  "hale  and 
hearty"  existence  as  air,  water  and  foods.  Hence,  we 
add  the  letter  L  to  Autopathy's  alphabet,  being — 

L(igfht)— A(ir)— W(ater)— F(ood). 

Incidentally,  these  letters  pronounce  "laugh,"  which 
I  forgot  to  mention  in  my  list  of  natural  remedies. 

The  more  you  live  and  work  in  natural  light,  and 
the  larger  the  area  of  your  body  exposed  to  it,  the 
healthier  you  remain,  or  the  sooner  you  get  well.  Keep 
your  head  and  hands  and  feet  and  body  bare  when- 
ever and  wherever  you  can.  There  is  some  energizing 
(kinetic)  force  or  element  in  natural  light  which  the 
system  utilizes  in  some  way,  as  plants  do.  Babies  and 
children  should  be  raised  "bareheaded,"  and  it  would 
be  a  blessing  to  many  a  grown-up's  scalp  and  brain  to 
live  likewise.  From  observation,  I  am  led  to  the  opin- 
ion that  not  alone  is  there  growth  and  health  for  the 
hair  in  daylight,  but  that  there  is  also  nutrition  and 
rejuvenation  for  the  brain. 

Another  "light"  point:  Even  during  the  night's 
darkness  a  south  or  west  room  contains  a  better  qual- 
ity of  air  than  does  a  north  room,  because  the  air  of  a 
north  room  lacks  certain  vitalizing  light-rays  which 
are  absorbed  during  the  day  by  a  sunlight -flooded 
room.  Of  course,  the  southmost  room  that  is  shut  up 
in  darkness  all  day  is  no  more  "fit"  to  sleep  in  than 


224  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

to  raise  flowers  in.  No  child  or  person  should  sleep 
regularly  in  a  room  that  is  unfit  to  raise  at  least 
ferns  in. 

Baby  bonnets  are  "chic"  on  dolls,  but  "sick"  on 
babies.  Give  their  heads  daylight,  that  their  brains 
may  see  clearly  as  they  grow  up. 


AIR. 


Two  kinds — the  natural  and  the  artificial.  Night 
air  is  as  good  as  day  air,  but  it  should  not  be  made  to 
replace  the  necessity  of  day  air.  If  you  compel  your- 
self to  live  all  day  in  artificial  or  contaminated  indoor 
air,  then  the  pure  all-outdoor  night  air  is  your  only 
salvation. 

Always  seek  natural  air,  asleep  and  awake,  in  win- 
ter and  summer,  sick  and  well — especially  when  asleep, 
especially  in  bad  or  cold  weather,  especially  when 
sick.  In  regard  to  your  choice  of  air,  it  is  always  the 
safest  plan  to  get  that  kind  which  the  majority  shun 
or  proscribe,  for  it  is  always  that  kind  which  God  or 
nature  prescribed  for  man  and  beast  and  plant. 

You  may  dress  and  undress,  or  live  and  work,  or 
think  and  read,  in  a  moderately  "warmed"  room  or 
place  in  cold  weather;  but  you  (and  children)  should 
never  sleep  in  a  "heated"  room.  Cover  up  the  body 
to  the  neck  as  much  as  you  please,  but  let.  the  lungs 
inspire  the  cold  air.  Faces  and  lungs  do  not  freeze  in 
bed.  Bloc>d  and  tissues  need  it  for  their  night  work, 
«nd  your  next  day's  use.  Besides,  artificially  heated  air 


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is  commonly  second-hand  or  breathed  air.  Your  own 
breathed  or  exhaled  air  is  as  bad  as  any  other.  By 
"breathed  air"  I  also  mean  that  which  comes  from  a 
burning  lamp,  or  gas  jet,  or  stove,  or  furnace.  Of 
course,  people  must  "cook"  and  "heat"  and  "light  up ;" 
but  people  can  easily  borrow  from  outdoors  a  plenti- 
ful supply  of  air  to  constantly  displace  and  replace 
the  carbonic  acid  gas-contaminated  air  which  breath- 
ing and  cooking  and  heating  and  lighting  produce. 
That  can  easily  be  done  during  the  day  and  night  with- 
out expense  or  inconvenience.  It  requires  just  a  little 
autologic  sense. 

As  before  said,  nothing  short  of  twenty-four  hours 
of  natural  air  v/ill  do  for  every  day's  supply,  as  far 
as  your  lungs  and  tissues  are  concerned.  And  large 
concerns,  such  as  stores,  and  factories,  and  churches, 
and  schools,  and  banks,  and  buildings,  v/ould  find  that 
employers  and  employes,  flocks  and  shepherds,  pupils 
and  teachers,  clerks  and  professionals,  as  v/ell  as  cus- 
tomers and  clients,  would  ov-n  and  exchange  more 
good  nature  and  courtesy  and  brotherly  love,  if  people 
were  trained  to  ventilate  their  organs  or  functions  as 
they  are  their  opinions  or  notions.  This  is  saying 
nothing  about  the  earnings  and  savings  in  dollars  and 
cents  which  would  thereby  accrue  to  individuals  and 
firms  and  communities. 

A  thoroughly  ventilated  room  or  public  building  is 
soon  saturated  with  an  excess  of  carbonic  acid  gas 
from  the  exhalations  of  lungs  and  lights  and  heaters. 
To  avoid  such  conditions  or  places  for  twenty-three 
hours  and  then  to  put  up  with  them  for  an  hou'^ — is 
about  as  bad  as  to  escape  drowning  for  twenty-three 
hours  and  then  to  practically  drown  during  the  next. 


226  Auto  logy — Study   Thyself 

If  you  oxygenate  (ventilate)  your  lungs  for  a  couple 
of  hours  and  carbonize  (contaminate)  them  for 
twenty-two  hours — what's  the  good  and  sense  ?  You'd 
be  better  off  to  die  at  once  of  asphyxiation — than  by 
inches,  or  fits  and  starts,  as  most  people  do.  Use, 
and  use,  and  use  natural  air.  It's  about  the  only 
thing  under  the  sun  that  you  don't  have  to  buy  or  be 
taxed  for — ^yet. 

An  ordinary  lamp,  or  a  gas  jet  poisons  the  air  of  a 
room  as  much  as  does  the  breath  of  a  dozen  or  more 
people.  Still,  people  will  live  and  sleep  shut  up  in 
just  such  an  atmosphere — and  then  wonder  that 
some  babies  and  children  don't  thrive  like  some 
others,  or  that  some  people  are  bilious,  or  rheumatic, 
or  phthisic,  or  catarrhal,  or  headachy,  or  debilitated, 
or  sick  thus  and  so — when  others  are  not. 

Be  sure,  then — a  plentiful  supply  of  nature's  air, 
and  let  that  be  cool  or  cold  in  season  and  place  and 
time. 

Opening  just  one  window  from  the  top  is  seldom 
of  any  benefit,  because  the  shade  shuts  or  seals  the 
opening,  thus  preventing  the  air  from  coming  in. 

Opening  a  window  from  the  bottom  is  better,  but 
some  outlet  must  be  provided  somewhere  else  for  the 
slow  but  steady  escape  of  the  used-up  or  contaminated 
air.  Under  ordinary  conditions,  air  cannot  enter  and 
leave  a  room  through  the  same  opening  at  the  same 
time,  any  more  than  water  can. 

Do  not  merely  "flush"  or  "douche"  your  rooms  with 
a  volume  or  two  of  fresh  air  and  then  shut  yourself 
up  clam-tight.  In  a  word,  keep  up  an  "even,"  steady 
circulation  of  outdoor  air  through  your  rooms  or 
buildings.     Don't  let  it  "blow"— just  let  it  "flow^'— 


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in  and  through.    If  you  should  "catch  a  cold,"  by  so 
doing,  it  will  be  the  healthiest  cold  you  ever  had. 


WATER. 

Originally,  water  was  always  pure  enough  to  drink. 
Water  which  dropped  from  the  clouds  was  not 
"loaded" — ^and  "spring"  or  "brook"  or  "river"  or 
"lake"  water  was  not  "alive"  with  organic  matter,  or 
"dead"  with  insoluble  earthy  salts — as  is  most  "well" 
and  "piped"  water.  Therefore,  in  sickness  at  least, 
it  becomes  necessary  to  use  pure  or  distilled  water. 
Merely  "boiling"  or  "filtering"  water  is  not  sufficient 
to  make  it  pure  in  the  sense  I  mean;  for,  though  the 
one  or  the  other  process  may  "kill"  or  remove  the  or- 
ganic matter,  it  does  not  "extract"  the  earth  salts 
which  it  contains. 

Sick  or  ailing  people  may  ward  off  or  palliate  an  oc- 
casional twinge  of  pain,  or  indisposition,  or  acid  stom- 
ach, etc.,  by  drinking  socalled  "mineral"  or  "alkaline" 
or  "aperient"  or  "laxative"  waters — but  this  habit  is 
a  pernicious  one  in  that  it  plays  blind  man's  buff  with 
some  vital  organ  or  function,  as  time  and  future 
events  will  show  to  your  eternal  sorrow. 

In  perfect  health,  drink  as  good  plain,  ordinary 
water  as  you  can  get ;  and,  in  sickness,  drink  distilled 
water. 

I  recommend  distilled  water  to  all  my  patients  in 
health  and  sickness,  and  use  it  altogether  at  home. 
Babies  and  small  children  should  not  drink  ordinary 


228  Autology — Study   Thyself 

water,  not  for  fear  of  sickness  from  it,  but  because 
ordinary  water  is  often  saturated  with  "earthy  ma- 
terial," which  is  deposited  in  the  tissues  of  the  body; 
whereas,  distilled  water  is  so  absolutely  free  of  cal- 
careous matter  that  it  helps  materially  to  dissolve  and 
rinse  out  the  deposits  that  already  exist  or  that  tend 
to  form  in  the  organs  and  tissues — particularly  in  the 
blood  vessels,  nerves,  joints  and  skin. 

But,  water  is  not  to  be  drank  at  any  time  that  you 
have  accustomed  your  artificial  "thirst"  to  call  for  it. 
Water  is  by  nature  meant  to  be  a  blood  and  tissue 
solvent,  and  for  rinsing  purposes — and  not  to  assist 
actual  digestion  in  the  stomach  and  bowels.  There- 
fore, do  not  drink  water  (or  liquids)  closer  than  one 
hour  or  so  before  m-eals,  and  not  closer  than  one  and 
one-half  or  two  hours  after  meals — if  you  really  v/ant 
the  good,  without  the  bad,  effects  of  drinking  water. 
If  you  indulge  between  those  hours,  you  will  not  feel 
"thirsty"  at  meal  time.  For  instance,  let  us  assume 
that  you  eat  at  7  a.  m.,  and  at  12  noon,  and  at  6  p.  m. 
In  that  case,  you  may  drink  all  the  water  you  want 
between  9  and  11  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  be- 
tween 2  and  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  If  you  eat 
so  much  salt  that  you  feel  desperately  "thirsty"  at 
meals  or  right  after  eating,  then  you  ought  to  be  will- 
ing to  pay  the  penalty  of  staying  thirsty  for  an  hour 
or  so. 

As  regards  drinking  water  before  going  to  bed, 
there  is  no  objection  at  all  so  long  as  that  does  not 
compel  you  to  get  up  during  the  night. 

A  glass  of  water,  warm  or  cold,  is  always  beneficial 
on  arising  from  bed;  but  the  best  part  of  an  hour 
should  elapse  between  the  drink  and  breakfast. 


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How  much  water  should  a  "body"  drink?  That 
question  is  really  a  joke.  If  you  were  to  ask  a  horse- 
man, or  even  a  "chore"  boy  the  question  "How  much 
water  should  my  horse  drink?" — and,  assuming  he 
"took  you  serious,"  he  v^ould,  as  he  leaned  against 
a  hitching  post  and  settled  a  pitiful  look  on  you,  say 
"that  depends" — and  forthwith  put  a  volley  of  ques- 
tions about  that  horse  of  yours — its  breed,  sex,  color, 
size,  age,  work,  feeding,  etc.— cr  simply  say  "as  much 
as  he  wants — but  not  always  when  he  wants."  Well, 
we're  animals,  too.  Only  that  horses  don't  get  water 
in  the  form  of  tea  or  coffee,  beer  or  wine,  cocoa  or 
chocolate,  etc.,  etc.  Hence,  they  always  know  ex- 
actly how  much  they  need,  but  they  don't  always 
know  when — simply  because  they  don't  always  have 
their  own  way  about  eating  and  what  to  eat.  We  do. 
Therefore,  we  neither  know  how  much  nor  when  to 
drink  of  water.  Consequently,  your  safest  course  is 
to  study  anim.als'  ways  and  to  imitate  them  until  your 
habits  of  eating  properly  prepared  and  mixed  foods 
restores  to  your  cells  and  tissues  that  nature-gift, 
called  instinct,  which  wild  tribes  still  possess  in  com- 
mon with  wild  animals. 

The  trouble  is  not  so  much  that  we  lack,  or  have 
lost  our  "horse  sense"  as  that  we  are  not  owned  and 
bossed  by  horsemen  or  animal  keepers.  If  we  were 
the  whole  science  and  practice  of  Prevention  and 
Cure  would  revert  to  trainers  and  jockeys  and  bron- 
cho-busters. However,  as  matters  stand  in  civilized 
communities,  the  future  Health  and  Treatment  of  the 
nation  shall  pass,  in  a  hundred  years  or  so,  into  the 
hands  of  architects  and  chefs. 

But — in  the  meantime — how  much  water  should  a 


a30  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

body  drink?  If  you  do  not  drink  a  drop  of  any  other 
beverage,  "animal  instinct"  will  soon  tell  you  how 
much  water  your  system  needs  "to  drink."  Or,  if 
between  meals,  you  drink,  say  three  tumblerfuls  of 
pure  v/ater  during  the  period  of  some  three  or  four 
weeks — and  drink  absolutely  nothing  with  your  meals, 
with  the  exceptions  mentioned  elsewhere — your  system 
will  then  tell  you  if  that  amount  (six  tumblerfuls  a 
day)  is  sufficient  or  insufficient  for  you. 

The  problem  of  water-drinking  is  not  one  of  quan- 
tity— but  it  is  one  of  common  sense  plus  quality.  By 
common  sense  I  mean  that  you  must  do  away  with 
the  habit  of  drinking  water,  particularly  cold  or  ice 
water,  at  or  near  your  meals;  and  especially  avoid 
eating  foods  or  dishes  that  are  prepared  with  so  much 
salt  that  they  create  a  false  thirst,  which  sometimes 
lasts  for  an  hour  or  two  after  eating.  If  you  will 
overcome  those  two  pernicious  habits  your  blood  and 
tissues  will  tell  you,  through  your  mouth,  just  when 
and  just  how  much  water  you  need  to  drink  between 
meals.  This,  of  course,  supposes  that  you  are  enjoy- 
ing good  health  and,  therefore,  require  no  extra 
amount  of  water  to  dissolve  and  rinse  out  a  lot  of 
useless  and  waste  material  which  has  been  settling 
in  your  organs  and  tissues  for  years  back.  Naturally 
enough,  a  system,  which  is  ailing  and  is  undergoing 
treatment,  needs  an  excess  of  water  just  as  a  soiled 
piece  of  linen  does  in  washing  and  rinsing. 

With  few  exceptions,  it  is  not  advisable  to  drink 
anything,  or  more  than  a  swallow  or  two  just  before 
going  to  bed.  But  it  is  a  good  practice  to  drink  a 
full  tumbler  of  warm  or  cool  water  on  arising — pro- 
vided that  no  food  is  taken  until  at  least  three-quar- 


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ters  to  one  hour  afterward.  It  takes,  on  an  average, 
about  that  long  for  water  to  pass  out  of  the  stomach 
into  the  small  intestine. 

There  is,  of  course,  no  objection  to  your  drinking  a 
tumblerful  of  water  about  one  hour  or  more  before 
retiring.  I  have  known  of  "cases"  where  a  tumblerful 
of  cold  water  taken  just  before  bed  time  was  the  cause 
of  insomnia,  and  it  must  appeal  to  you  that,  fre- 
quently, the  cause  of  "having  to  get  up  during  the 
night"  is  drinking  two  or  three  glasses  of  water  (or 
something  else)  before  going  to  bed,  or  between  sup- 
per and  bed  time.  Some  may  claim  that  this  extra 
flushing  of  the  kidneys  during  the  night  is  good. 
They  forget  that  "flushing  the  kidneys"  means  "work- 
ing" the  kidneys  overtime — when  they  also,  as  the 
brain,  should  have  at  least  a  partial  rest.  "Flush" 
your  kidneys  by  drinking  between  meals,  in  day  time, 
as  you  flush  your  brains  by  thinking  between  meals, 
in  day  time. 

By  the  time  that  you  have  recovered  your  well- 
being  and  health  your  own  instinct  will  tell  you  how 
much  water  you  should  drink  thereafter.  Some  days 
it  may  be  two  and  some  days  it  may  be  ten 
glasses.  Some  days  you  won't  feel  hungry,  but  will 
feel  empty.  That  always  calls  for  "watering"  the  sys- 
tem and  never  for  "feeding"  it.  On  such  days — drink 
and  drink  and  drink  until  you  drink  yourself  hungry; 
but  drink  only  pure  or  distilled  water  in  which  you 
occasionally  put  a  tablespoonful  or  so  of  pure  fruit 
juice — such  as  juice  of  the  orange,  apple,  lemon,  lime, 
or  grape.  By  evening  or  next  day  your  head  or  stom- 
ach or  liver  will  be  "in  clover." 


332  Autolo gy — Study   Thyself 

FRUIT  JUICES. 

Nature  made  fruits  "full  of  taste"  so  as  to  seduce 
our  palates.  Otherwise,  man  would  not  eat  them,  be- 
cause most  of  them  contain  very  little  nourishment. 
The  value  of  fruits  resides  chiefly  in  their  juices — 
some  of  which  possess  digestive  properties,  as  that  of 
the  pineapple;  while  all  of  them  act  as  depurating 
agents  or  remedies. 

Mostly  all  "dried,"  or  "stewed,"  or  "cooked,"  or 
"canned,"  or  "preserved"  fruits  are  not  fruits.  Their 
substances  and  juices  have,  for  the  most  part,  been  ar- 
tificially changed  into  "sweets"  or  "confection."  The 
natural  "detoxyl"  or  curative  fruit-acids  and  fruit-salts 
have  been  removed  or  replaced  or  modified  by  the 
drying  or  cooking  or  preserving  process.  Most  of  them 
have  become  "unfit"  as  natural  remedies — and  are 
really  used  only  as  adjuncts  to  sharpen  an  appetite 
that  is  already  artificial  or  gluttonous. 

There  are,  however,  a  few  fruit-juices  which  are  ar- 
tificially extracted  and  preserved  in  nearly  their  nat- 
ural state — so  that  they  retain  much  of  their  remedial 
or  beneficial  properties.  Such  are  the  juices  of  the 
lime  and  grape.  But,  even  here,  it  is  not  often  the 
case  that  one  cannot  find  many  good  fresh  substitutes 
for  these  two  fruit-juices.  I  refer  to  the  juice  of  ap- 
ples, oranges  and  lemons. 

All  people,  young  or  old,  fat  or  thin,  bilious  or  gouty, 
anemic  or  plethoric  (full  blooded),  can  take  the  juices 
of  apples  and  oranges  with  benefit.  But  "thin"  or 
"anemic"  individuals  should,  as  a  rule,  avoid  lemon 
juice;  whereas  gouty  and  full-blooded  persons  should 
favor  it. 


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The  most  generally  useful  and  "wholesome"  fruit- 
juice  is  that  of  the  orange — but  when  taken  as  a  reme- 
dy it  should  be  strained  (clear)  through  a  coarse  cloth. 
Diluted  half  or  more  with  distilled  water  it  is  the  most 
valuable  and  reliable  remedy  for  tiny  babies  and  in- 
fants, whenever  and  wherever  they  are  ailing  or  con- 
stipated. But  they  should  not  be  "nursed"  or  "fed" 
anything  whatever  nearer  than  one  hour  from,  before 
or  after,  taking  the  orange  juice-water. 

When  it  comes  to  "weaning"  babies  at  night  from 
the  breast  or  the  bottle,  there  is  absolutely  nothing 
to  compare  with  the  foUov/ing  little  scheme.  Fill  up 
your  nursing  bottle  with  the  same  quantity  of  orange- 
juice  water  that  you  are  in  the  habit  of  using  of  the 
milk  or  baby-food  m.ixture.  Be  sure  that  you  use  dis- 
tilled or  pure  water,  and  that  you  strain  the  orange 
juice — also  that  the  orange  is  of  the  "sweet"  kind.  As 
a  rule  mix  one  teaspoonful  of  orange  juice  to  one 
tablespoonful  of  water  and  sweeten  just  a  little,  if  the 
child  seems  to  want  it.  This  you  can  easily  determine 
by  offering  the  child  that  mixture  during  the  day.  It 
is  not  wise  to  try  and  pawn  this  off  on  the  child  for 
the  first  "try"  at  night.  Let  him  taste  of  it  and  get  a 
liking  for  it  during  the  day.  You  will  then  have  no 
trouble  at  all  to  "wean"  the  child  from  nursing  or 
drinking  milk  during  the  night. 

Thin  people  should  "favor"  grape  and  apple  juices. 

Fat  people  should  favor  lemon  and  lime  juices. 

Orange  juice  is  fine  for  both. 

Fruit-syrups  are  not  fruit-juices. 

Fruits  should  not  be  eaten  with  meals  or  other  foods. 
The  habit  of  "coaxing  an  appetite,"  or  "topping  off" 


334  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

a  meal  with  any  kind  of  fruit  or  nut  is  absurd  and  un- 
hygienic. 

In  orange  season,  a  very  excellent  habit  is  to  drink  a 
full  tumbler  of  the  strained  juice  on  arising.  I  have 
never  known  a  case  of  constipation  to  be  obstinate 
enough  to  withstand  that  when  persevered  in  every 
morning,  about  one  hour  before  breakfast — especially 
if  one  takes  a  walk  in  the  interval. 

In  "good-eating"  apple  season,  squeeze  out  the 
apple  juice  yourself  and  take  that  instead  of  the 
orange  juice. 

Why  not  eat  the  fruit  instead?  Well,  in  the  first 
place  you'd  have  to  fill  up  pretty  tight  to  get  that 
much  juice  by  eating  the  oranges  or  apples  or  grapes, 
at  one  lick.  In  the  second  place,  you  would  ingest  a 
mass  of  "woody"  fibres,  which  your  alimentary  canal 
would  have  to  dispose  of.  When  your  bowels  and 
other  tissues  and  functions  are  again  at  par — then  eat 
the  fruit  itself. 

I-  In  season,  and  out  of  season,  an  excellent  "lunch" 
consists  of  a  tumblerful  of  the  juice  of  oranges,  or 
apples,  or  grapes — sipped  as  one  would  champagne. 

As  for  pineapples,  they  contain  a  wonderful  diges- 
tive juice.  Chew  the  fruit  itself  and  suck  the  juice, 
but  do  not  swallow  the  fibre.  Irrational  as  it  may 
seem,  eat  them  only  between  meals — because  every 
"lift"  that  you  give  your  stomach  juice  in  the  way 
of  "extra"  digestive  ferments,  the  more  it  learns  to 
expect  and  to  depend  on  that  "lift" — as  your  bowels 
do  from  taking  laxatives  or  cathartics  or  injections. 
Eat  pineapples  between  meals,  or  make  a  whole  lunch 
on  them. 


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Bananas  are  more  nourishing  than  "fruity."  Hence 
they  should  be  used  rather  as  "bread"  or  "starchy" 
food  than  as  fruit.  In  fact,  the  imperfectly  ripened 
banana  is  composed  chiefly  of  starch. 

Melons  are  good  to  lunch  on,  or  to  eat  betvreen 
meals,  like  any  and  every  other  fruit. 

It  is  the  sickening  habit  of  mixing  all  manner  of 
"incompatibles,"  together  in  one's  stomach,  which  cre- 
ates prejudices  in  people's  minds  against  the  very  ar- 
ticles of  food  which  are  often  most  beneficial  and  cura- 
tive. To  illustrate,  let  me  cite  a  "case"— of  which  I 
can  cite  hundreds  like. 

A  young  woman  had  had  four  severe  attacks  of  ap- 
pendicitis in  six  months'  time,  and  finally  had  con- 
sented to  be  operated  on.  But,  the  last  moment,  some 
of  her  relatives  induced  her  to  consult  me.  I  learned 
that  every  time  she  ate  cabbage  or  apples,  there  was 
sure  to  follow  a  severe  attack  of  indigestion,  or  diar- 
rhoea, Of  appendicitis — and,  of  course,  she  "had  it  in" 
for  cabbage  and  apples — although  she  "loved  them 
so."  I  explained  that  her  experience  proved  to  me 
that  cabbage  and  apples  were  her  best  friends;  and 
that,  were  she  to  use  but  not  abuse  them,  they  would 
never  turn  against  her.  I  predicted  that  she  would  be 
able  to  eat  apples  and  cabbage  to  her  heart's  content 
in  six  weeks'  time — and  would  require  no  operation, 
and  never  again  would  be  reminded  that  she  had  an 
appendix. 

Well,  this  "patient"  was  able,  in  a  month's  time,  and 
has  been  able  since  (and  that's  four  years  ago)  to  eat 
what  and  as  she  pleases.  But  she  has  learned  not  to 
"mix  dogs  and  cats"  in  her  stomach.  Cabbage  and 
vinegar  are  antagonistic.    Fruit  acid  and  vinegar  acid 


236  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study   Thyself 

are  unfriendly.  But  well  boiled  cabbage  and  fresh 
ribs  of  beef  with  plain  boiled  potatoes  and  tender  car- 
rots— without  vinegar,  or  pickles,  or  sour  beats,  or 
pork  and  the  like — will  not  injure  the  weakest  and 
most  fastidious  of  dyspeptic  stomachs.  But,  do  not 
"top"  that  meal  off  with  pie  or  cake  or  puddings  or 
raisins  or  cheese,  or  nuts,  or  fruits — or  tea  or  coffee, 
or  water,  or  beer — and  never  eat  bread  and  butter 
with  it.  When  you  want  a  "boiled  dinner"  eat  a 
boiled  dinner — not  a  boiled-vinegared-sugared-pas- 
tried-corn-beefed  pork  of  a  dinner. 

Here  is  a  sure  test,  that  you  can  alv/ays  depend  on, 
as  to  whether  you  are  eating  properly  or  not  for  your 
stomach  and  the  rest  of  you.  As  you  know,  that 
which  you  eat  and  drink  gets  mixed  up  and  churned 
in  your  stom.ach.    Here  is  the  test: 

Take  a  big  bowl,  big  enough  to  contain  your  din- 
ner. Pour  in  the  soup,  salted  and  peppered  and  cat- 
supped  and  crackered  or  breaded — as  you  may  be  in 
the  habit  of  doing.  Then  chop  up  the  meat  and  pota- 
toes in  it,  with  the  salt  and  pepper  and  catsup,  or 
sauces  and  gravies  and  bread  and  butter  and  pickles 
— and  then  add  the  vegetables  and  gravies  and  water 
or  milk  or  tea  or  coffee  or  wine  or  beer,  etc.,  and  then 
the  pie  and  cheese,  and  ices,  etc.,  etc.  Then — but 
don't  let  it  disgust  you  yet — stir  up  the  mess — and 
don't  let  your  mind  suspect  that  it  isn't  for  the  occu- 
pant of  your  chair,  though  "fit"  for  the  occupant  of  a 
back-yard  pen — and  salt  and  pepper  it  some  more. 
Now,  eat  it.  Scrumptious,  ain't  it?  Well — don't  you 
know  that  you  serve  just  such  a  sickening  mess  to 
your  stomach  and  blood  and  brain  and  other  tissues 
nearly  every  day? 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  237 

Therefore,  when  you  sit  down  at  your  or  any  table 
"size  up"  the  situation — and  mentally  mix  what  you 
are  about  to  physically  churn. 


"VEGETABLE"  JUICES. 

Vegetable  juices  are  of  no  less  importance  and 
possess  no  less  "health"  value  than  fruit  juices.  Both 
serve  the  same  purpose  in  preventing  and  curing  sick- 
ness. The  fruit  juices— chiefly  through  the  fruit  acids 
which  they  contain;  and  the  vegetable  juices — chiefly 
through  the  vegetable  or  earthy  salts  (not  table-salt) 
which  they  contain. 

It  has  become  quite  customary  to  utilize  the  juices 
of  certain  fruits  for  purposes  of  "cure."  For  instance, 
the  well-knov/n  "grape-juice"  cure.  V/hich,  however, 
is  not  much  of  a  cure  in  most  "cases"  and  as  usually 
followed  or  recommended.  Because  the  process  itself, 
as  it  takes  place  between  the  sickly  constituents  of  the 
"patient's"  blood  or  tissues  and  the  "healthy"  constit- 
uents of  the  grape  juice,  is  not  sufficiently  well  or  at 
all  understood  by  the  advocates  and  followers  of  the 
cure.    Hence,  the  failures. 

When  Chemists  wish  to  determine  the  pres- 
ence of  certain  objectionable  or  "poisonous"  com- 
pounds in  a  given  substance  or  solution — let  us 
say  in  the  contents  of  the  stomach  of  an  individ- 
ual who  is  supposed  to  have  been  poisoned — they 
invariably  begin  by  using  some  certain  reagent;  and 
no  matter  how  many  reagents  they  may  thereafter 


238  Auto  logy— Study  Thyself 

employ  in  "treating"  the  suspicious  material,  they 
never  use  the  next  reagent  until  the  "precipitate"  pro- 
duced by  the  first  is  removed  by  filtering  or  washing 
or  otherwise.  In  other  words,  they  work  on  the  old 
common  sense  principle  of  one  thing  at  a  time,  or  one 
step  before  or  after  the  other. 

Well — you  may  properly  look  upon  the  whole  out- 
fit of  a  sick  body  as  being  a  great  big  stomach  from 
head  to  foot,  and  filled  with  a  mess  of  vomit  containing 
some  suspicious  substances  which  you,  or  your  attend- 
ants, want  to  get  rid  of.  Accordingly,  you  decide  on 
grape  juice  as  the  dead  sure  reagent  or  cure.  Very 
well.  You  are  given  a  tumblerful  three  times  a  day, 
let  us  assume.  Your  stomach  passes  it  over  to  your 
intestines  which  part  with  it  to  your  blood — by  which 
it  is  conveyed  to  the  billions  of  tiny  cell-tubes  or 
honeycombs  of  your  tissues ;  where  the  health-produc- 
ing reagents  of  the  grape  juice  settle  down  to  busi- 
ness— renovating  and  house-cleaning.  In  the  mean- 
time, you  sit  down  and  fill  up  on  slops  or  other 
"dishes."  So,  v/hen  night  comes,  and  sleep  along  with 
it,  what  happens?  This.  Just  about  the  time  when 
the  grape  juice  cell-renovators  are  busiest  who  comes 
along  but  "sloppy"  or  "dishy"  chaps  looking  for 
trouble,  or  to  serve  injunctions,  and  you  wake  up — to 
repeat  the  same  foolishness  again. 

When  you  start  to  do  a  thing,  do  it — and  do  it 
brown.  If  you  want  a  grape  cure — well  then  get 
board  and  lodging  for  your  stomach,  liver,  blood,  brain, 
muscles  and  marrow  out  of  grape  juice.  In  that  way 
you'll  get  value  received  from  the  treatment. 


Autopathy— Cure  Thyself  239 

But  as  most  "patients"  prefer  or  are  compelled  to 
earn  their  "cure"  at  the  same  time  that  they  are  earn- 
ing their  living — the  above  method  is  out  of  the  ques- 
tion. And,  fortunately,  it  can  be  modified  to  suit  their 
convenience  or  means.  In  this  way.  Don't  eat  nor 
drink  anything  that  is  incompatible  with  the  fruit  juice 
or  juices;  or  that  is  likely  to  be  transformed  in  the 
system  into  by-products  that  are  incompatible  with 
the  fruit  acids  or  constituents.  That's  a  puzzle,  isn't 
it?  Well,  Standard  Oil  People  have  solved  many  and 
many  a  more  intricate  puzzle  than  that.  And  so  have 
Chicago  Packers. 

Here  is  how  I  have  solved  this  problem. 

There's  no  incompatibility  between  the  pure,  fresh 
juices  of  ordinary  fruits  and  the  pure,  fresh  juices  of 
ordinary  "vegetables;"  and  there's  no  incompatibility 
between  the  constituents  of  those  juices  and  the  nutri- 
tive constituents  of  certain  foods — among  which  are 
€g&s,  wheat  flour,  rice  and  cream  fat.  Nevertheless 
the  fruit  and  vegetable  juices  must  not  be  poured  to- 
gether or  mixed  together  in  the  stomach;  nor  must 
they  be  swallowed  with  the  foods  proper;  or  so  near 
the  time  of  eating  that  there  is  likelihood  of  their 
meeting  and  combining  in  your  stomach  or  small  in- 
testine. The  reason  for  this  is  that  the  "organic"  con- 
stituents of  eggs  or  starch  or  fat  are  split  up  in  the 
stomach  and  bowels  in  a  way  which  transforms  them 
into  compounds  that  possess  decided  affinities  for  the 
depurating  or  curing  compounds  of  fruit  and  vegetable 
juices.  Therefore,  foods  proper  when  mixed  in  the 
stomach  or  bowels  with  fruit  or  vegetable  juices  utilize 


240  Autology— Study   Thyself 

the  best  and  bulk  of  the  latter's  curative  constituents, 
which  are  intended  to  nullify  or  modify  the  objection- 
able or  poisonous  by-products  that  have  formed  and 
accumulated  in  your  tissues.  Hence  the  proper  and 
only  rational  course  to  follow  regarding  treatment 
with  the  juices  of  fruits  and  of  vegetables  is  to  take 
them  on  an  empty  stomach  with  a  liberal  amount  of 
pure  distilled  water ;  then  to  take  a  walk  in  the  "open," 
not  alone  because  of  the  benefit  derived  from  taking  in 
oxygen  but  also  because  of  the  increased  circulation 
of  all  body  fluids  and  of  the  stirring  up  of  old  deposits 
that  have  settled  in  all  the  muscles  and  cavities  and 
tissues  of  your  body.  By  so  doing  the  fruit  or  the  veg- 
etable juices  are  more  surely  and  universally  mixed 
with  the  waste  by-products  which  are  the  source  of 
your  ailment.  Let  them  fight  it  out — but  be  sure  that 
you  supply  your  "favorite"  with  ammunition  in  the 
way  of  a  little  more  juice  and  an  abundance  of  distilled 
water  every  hour  or  so.  Simply  because  there's  no 
sense  in  soaping  and  resoaping  your  soiled  linen  when 
the  water  in  which  you  are  boiling  or  washing  them  is 
gray  or  black  with  dirt.  They'll  never  turn  out  nice, 
white  and  clean.  Clean,  thorough  housewives  "change" 
and  "rechange"  their  wash-water.  So  must  you  pour 
in  clean  water  as  your  bladder  pours  out  the  dirt-laden 
water.  Otherwise  the  little  busy  bodies  of  your  cells 
and  tissues  cannot  "wash  clean." 

And  when  your  bladder  tells  you  that  the  rinsing 
process  is  "well  on,"  then  quit  the  juice  and  the  water 
for  a  couple  of  hours,  and  get  ready  for  another  speU 
in  the  afternoon.  But  eat  as  elsewhere  advised  in  this 
book. 


A  ut  op  a  thy — Cure  Thyself  241 

Keep  this  up  for  one  week,  or  two  weeks,  or  one 
month,  or  more,  as  your  "case"  may  demand. 

Although  I  have  been  speaking  of  "vegetable"  juices 
I  have  not  explained  to  you  the  manner  of  preparing 
or  extracting  them. 

The  most  convenient  way  is  to  "hash  up"  the  raw 
vegetables  and  then  to  press  out  the  juice  as  you  do 
with  fruits.  Or  you  may  "grate"  them  and  then 
squeeze  out  their  juice.  The  "succulent"  vegetables 
are  best  for  this  purpose.  The  most  desirable  vege- 
tables to  use  are  onions,  celery,  carrots,  parsnips,  toma- 
toes, cresses,  lettuce,  cuciunbers  and  the  like.  It's  ad- 
visable to  mix  them  all  up  together.  As  to  proportions 
of  each  and  all,  favor  the  onions  and  carrots  most,  es- 
pecially if  yours  is  a  liver  or  bilious  or  catarrhal  or 
bronchial  or  lung  trouble.  The  amount  of  the  pure 
juice  that  should  be  taken  varies  from  two  to  three 
tablespoonfuls  three  times  a  day.  Each  dose  should 
be  taken  with  one-half  to  one  tumblerful  of  distilled 
water;  and  should  be  followed  within  one-half  hour 
with  another  tumblerful  of  distilled  water. 


WORK  (INCLUDES  THINKING). 

Work,  as  a  remedy  (preventive,  curative,  or  pallia- 
tive) is  as  essential  as  light,  air,  water  and  foods  com- 
bined. 

It  is  almost  impossible  to  carry  work  too  far.  I 
mean  to  the  point  of  producing  permanent  injury  or 
disease— provided  the  work  is  done  under  natural  con- 


242  Autology — Study  Thyself 

ditions  of  light,  air,  water,  foods,  and  muscular  ca- 
pacity, and  provided  that  pleasures  do  not  encroach 
too  much  on  the  individual's  sleep,  or  conscience.  A 
man  who,  for  political  or  other  reasons,  is  "on  the  go" 
for  weeks  or  months,  does  not  need  rest  or  the  springs 
or  the  woods  because  he  has  overworked ;  but  because 
he  has  overdissipated,  or  worked  and  talked  and  lived 
and  slept  in  unnatural  conditions  of  air,  water  and 
foods.  A  girl  or  woman  who  works  all  day,  or  not  at 
all,  and  devotes  overtime  to  dances  and  functions,  etc., 
does  not  break  down  from  physical  labor,  but  from  the 
same  causes  just  mentioned. 

Work,  work,  v/ork!  or  think!  think!  think!  and 
when  your  day's  work  or  thinking  is  done,  play,  play, 
play— or  let  others  furnish  you  fun,  fun,  fun — ^but  al- 
ways and  everywhere  remember  your  L,  A,  W,  F — 
light,  air,  water,  foods. 


EXERCISK 

Most  people  (not  children)  make  blundering  mis- 
takes about  exercise. 

During  exercise,  the  mind  as  well  as  the  body  must 
be  divorced  from  work,  and  must  be  wedded  to 
pleasure. 

Work  is  not  exercise.  "Shopping"  is  not  exercise — 
it's  work.  Housework  is  not  exercise — ifs  work. 
"Clerking"  is  not  exercise — it's  work.  Chasing  around 
on  business  is  not  exercice — it's  work.  "Running" 
stairs,  or  machines,  is  not  exercise — it's  work.    Train- 


Autopathy— Cure  Thyself  243 

ing  is  not  exercise — it's  work.  All  forms  of  indoor 
"culture"  exercises  are  not  exercise — that's  work.  Pro- 
fessional sport  is  not  exercise — it's  work.  And  so  on. 

What  then  is  exercise? 

Exercise  is  Pleasure.  Children  "exercise"  because 
they  enjoy  playing.  Young  people  exercise  when  they 
play.  Grown  people  exercise  when  they  walk  for 
pleasure.  But  walking  for  reasons  of  business  or  fame 
is  not  exercise. 

When  muscular  action  is  indulged  in  for  its  own 
sake,  that  is  for  the  pleasure  it  brings  or  invites,  then 
it  is  exercise.  Exercise,  to  be  beneficial  or  natural, 
must  never  have  duty  or  money  as  its  mainspring. 
Exercise  must  be  pleasure. 

Amateur  sports  are  pleasures;  therefore  exercise. 
But  all  physical  culture  exercises  which  are  under- 
taken for  the  purpose  of  curing  some  ailment  or  con- 
dition of  the  body  and  which  do  not  create  in  you  the 
feeling  and  longing  for  them  that  you  feel  and  long  for 
hunting,  or  fishing,  or  baseball,  or  football,  or  courting 
— is  work  and  not  exercise.  And  you're  bound  to  quit 
them  before  and  without  having  derived  the  desired 
or  permanent  cure  or  benefit — unless  the  exercises  are 
maintained  through  life,  or  adopted  as  a  livelihood. 
In  which  case  the  alleged  "exercises"  become  your 
work,  and  then  rest,  or  reading  or  recreation  becomes 
your  exercise. 

Generally  speaking,  the  best  and  cheapest  youthful 
and  useful  and  healthful  exercise  for  middle-aged  and 
older  people — as  well  as  for  young  people  who  are  con- 
fined indoors  by  occupation  or  education — is  walking, 
plain  everyday  walking  with  one's  own  legs. 


244  A  u  1 0  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

Men  and  women  who  keep  up,  or  acquire,  the  habit 
of  walking  for  walk's  sake,  winter  and  summer,  rain 
or  shine — are  or  remain  younger  and  sounder  and 
saner  of  mind  and  body  at  and  after  the  age  of  sixty 
than  others  are  or  remain  at  or  after  forty. 

Don't  run — that's  work.    Walk. 

Don't  "practice"~that's  work.    Walk. 

Don't  worry  your  diaphragm— that's  work.     Walk. 

Use  your  feet  as  dumb-bells  and  legs  as  indian  clubs. 
Walk. 

But  walk  outdoors — if  not  "confined"  for  good  or 
other  reasons. 

Walking  pumps  air  into  your  lungs,  without  work  or 
effort ;  drives  blood  to  and  from  your  tissues,  without 
strain;  and  keeps  people  out  of  mischief.  Besides,  did 
you  ever  notice  how  much  better  and  clearer  you  can 
think  out  many  a  subject  or  project  or  trouble  while 
walking  for  exercise  or  pleasure? 

I  am  in  receipt  of  a  letter  from  a  man  who  is  just 
past  77  years  of  age;  who  looks  and  feels  younger 
than  he  did  at  50 — simply  because  he  never  misses  his 
morning  walk  of  a  few  or  many  miles.  Last  winter 
I  received  the  visit  of  a  man  who  is  over  60,  and 
w^hose  health,  between  the  ages  of  25  and  45  was  piti- 
ful in  the  extreme.  Fully  twenty  years  ago  I  had  occa- 
sion to  witness  and  appreciate  that  appearances  were 
against  this  man's  living  out  another  year.  About 
that  time,  business  reverses  compelled  this  "patient" 
to  change  his  occupation.  The  change  of  workbrought 
on  the  need  of  walking,  which  soon  became  a  pleasure. 
The  results  were  simply  marvelous — so  that  now,  at 
the  age  of  65,  this  man's  constitution  and  appearance 


Autopath y — Cure  Thyself  345 

are  those  of  a  healthy  man  of  40,  with  the  same  ambi- 
tion, ideas  and  capacity  for  work. 

Again,  I  may  cite  the  case  of  a  lady  passed  68 — ^who 
had  been  "house-ridden"  for  12  years,  with  all  the 
ailments  that  a  woman  with  deranged  stomach,  bow^- 
els,  liver  and  pelvic  organs  could  possibly  have;  and 
weighing  224  pounds,  of  fat  mostly.  This  lady  began 
autopathic  treatment  in  October,  1903.  At  first,  she 
v»^alked  "half  a  block"  morning  and  afternoon— each 
day  increasing  the  distance  by  a  few  yards.  Three 
months  later,  her  weight  v/as  down  to  179  and  she 
actually  enjoyed  walking  5  miles  to  my  office.  To- 
day (and  for  over  a  year)  her  weight  is  140  pounds, 
and  she  is  a  comparatively  young,  active  woman — 
able  to  accomplish  more  and  better  work  than,  and 
to  outdistance,  her  daughters ;  as  well  as  to  get  more 
enjoyment  out  of  life.  This  is  only  one  instance, 
which  is  like  scores  of  others,  where  common  sense — 
such  as  is  distributed  through  this  book — ^has  accom- 
plished with  little  expense,  effort,  and  inconvenience 
what  seemed  to  demand  "being  bom  over  again." 


PLEASURES. 

Everybody  knows  which  are  good  and  which  are 
bad  pleasures. 

I  can't  dictate  them  to  you.  But  I  will  tell  you  this 
—that  if  you  make  your  pleasures  useful,  your  bad  or 
questionable  pleasures  v/ill  soon  give  way  to,  or  be  re- 
placed by,  good  or  healthful  pleasures. 


246  Autology — Study  Thyself 

Pleasures  are  such  arbitrary  things,  in  their  good- 
ness or  badness;  and  they  leave  such  essentially  dif- 
ferent after-effects  on  different  individual's  mind  or 
hearts — that  there  is  no  use  in  preaching  or  teaching. 


CLEANLINESS. 

Some  call  that  "bathing" — I  call  it  washing.  People 
usually  "wash"  their  faces — ^whatever  they  may  or 
may  not  do  with  their  bodies.  This  much  I  knovz, 
however,  that  they  don't  wash  their  faces  for  "health's 
sake" — ^but  for  cleanliness  sake.  If  one  could  root  out 
of  people's  brains  that  bathing  is  healthy,  and  replace 
it  with  the  conviction  that  the  body  needs  washing  just 
the  same  and  in  exactly  the  same  way  as  hands  and 
face — there  would  be  no  trouble  at  all  to  make  cleanli- 
ness popular,  bath  or  no  bath. 

If  you  bathe,  or  get  bathed,  for  health's  sake,  you're 
likely  to  neglect  it  often,  or  by  spells. 

Bathe,  or  rather  wash,  for  sweet  cleanliness  and  self- 
respect.  A  gallon  or  so  of  water  will  do  fully  as  well 
as  a  tubfull. 

You  don't  wash  your  hands  and  face,  the  visible 
parts  of  you,  because  it's  healthy — do  you?  Why, 
then,  "bathe"  the  unseen  parts  for  a  different  reason? 
If  you  are  eating,  or  drinking,  or  behaving  so  bad 
that  you  need  Turkish  or  steam  baths,  or  anything  else 
than  the  old-fashioned  soap  and  water — why  not  re- 
sort to  blood-letting  or  starved  leeches?  You'd  get 
a  heap  more  good  out  of  one  such  treatment  than  you 
can  ever  derive  from  a  legion  of  "sweat  baths." 


Autopath  y — Cure  Thyself  247 

If  you  really  want  a  good  "sweating  out,"  one  that 
won't  merely  sweat  the  water  out  of  skin  or  fat,  but 
that  will  stir  up  and  bum  and  remove  impurities  from 
your  very  flesh  and  marrow — take  a  brisk  five-mile 
walk.  Then  lay  down  and  sleep  it  off,  if  you  want  to. 
Artificial  or  "passive"  sweating  is  a  delusion. 

Wash  often,  in  cool  or  warm  water,  in  tubs  or  with 
sponges,  as  and  with  what  you  like — but  wash  your 
bodies  as  you  do  your  hands  and  face,  and  for  no  other 
reason. 

Dirty  hands  and  faces  and  outer  clothes  won't  hurt 
you  near  as  much  as  dirty  feet  and  bodies  and  under- 
clothes. 

Wash  yourself — don't  "bathe"  yourself,  except  in 
summer  for  fun,  or  in  swimming.  Do  it  for  yourself — 
and  let  others  do  it  for  themselves.  For,  when  you  do 
it  yourself  for  yourself,  you  get  the  "wash"  plus  the 
"exercise."  In  other  words,  you  derive  the  benefit  of 
two  natural  remedies. 

The  "forcible"  editorial  writer  of  the  Hearst's  "Even- 
ing" papers  writes:  "You  need  plenty  of  bathing — 
because  all  the  work  that  your  skin  does  in  ridding  the 
body  of  impurities  is  so  much  work  saved  for  your  in- 
ternal organs." 

This  expresses  the  common  belief.  Hence  I  quote 
it.    It's  bogus  knowledge  and  logic,  however. 

In  the  first  place,  if  this  writer  knew  something 
about  the  chemistry  of  sweat,  and  about  the  chemistry 
of  "impurities" — he  would  know  that  in  four  gallons  of 
sweat  there  isn't  two  ounces  of  solid  matter — and  that 
these  two  ounces  are  nearly  three-fourths  table-salt 
with  a  little  fatty  matter.    Think  of  having  to  sweat 


248  A  u  t  o  1  o  g  y — Study  Thyself 

four  gallons  to  get  rid  of  about  one-fourth  of  an  ounce 
of  urea — when  the  mere  eating  of  a  few  bites  less 
would  accomplish  the  same  result,  without  imposing 
any  work  on  skin  or  internal  organs.  Don't  imagine 
for  an  instant,  that  sweating  a  gallon  doesn't  perturb 
internal  organs — which  must  hustle  to  head  off  the 
vacuum  produced. 

In  the  second  place — there  is  no  logical  connection 
between  "you  need  plenty  of  bathing" — and  the  "be- 
cause, etc  "  Bathing,  or  v/ashing,  cleans  the  skin,  but 
I  never  knew  that  it  scoured  the  internal  organs,  al- 
though it  does  "hold  them  up"  on  the  water  supply. 

In  the  third  place,  is  the  skin  nature  made  to  urinate 
with  or  through?  And  is  the  robbing  of  quarts  of 
water,  from  the  tissues  and  kidneys  as  well,  for  the 
sake  of  sweating  out  a  few  grains  of  so-called  "im- 
purities," not  a  hundred,  aye  a  thousand,  times  more 
injurious  than  letting  those  quarts  of  water  find  their 
natural  vent?  Don't  you  know,  sir,  that  forcing  out 
quarts  of  "impure"  liquid  from  within  one's  hide  lets 
out  the  pure  water  and  leaves  behind  the  impurities; 
as  filtering  through  sheep-skin  does?  It  stirs  up  a 
mess  all  right,  but  it  leaves  it  in  and  behind  for  the 
internal  organs  to  straighten  up. 

The  sam.e  blunders  are  made  in  regard  to  artificial 
exercise  and  deep  breathing — not  that  some  of  the  re- 
sults of  such  teaching  are  not  beneficial,  but  the  teach- 
ing itself  is  based  mostly  on  spurious  and  superficial 
knowledge  of  physiologic  chemistry. 

Here  is  another  quotation  from  the  same  editorial 
— ^which  is  sad  to  contemplate :  "The  iron  in  the  blood 
— ^lots  of  it  in  the  red  corpuscles — takes  up  the  electric 


Autopathy — Cure  Thyself  249 

force,  etc."  Well,  let  us  see  about  this — "lots  of  it 
(iron)  in  the  red  corpuscles."  In  an  average  sized 
man  the  blood  all  told  contains  between  30  and  40 
grains  of  iron — a  mere  pinch,  so  to  say. 

It's  too  bad  that  the  "opposite"  column  of  all  like 
"scribbles"  is  not  dedicated  to  the  story  of  the  shoe- 
maker and  some  famous  painter  of  ancient  Greece. 
History  tells  us  that  the  great  painter  was  in  the 
habit  of  exhibiting  his  paintings  in  public,  much  as 
"sign  boards"  are  these  days.  He  would  hide  behind 
the  canvas,  and  listen  to  the  remarks  and  criticism  of 
passers-by.  One  day,  hidden  behind  a  portrait  of  a 
beautiful  woman,  there  came  to  pass  a  shoemaker  who, 
after  commenting  on  the  lady's  shoe,  allowed  his  gaze 
to  maze  his  brain,  and  began  to  criticize  the  lady's 
ankles  and —  but,  that  the  painter  couldn't  stand.  So, 
coming  from  under  cover  he  chastised  the  shoemaker 
for  his  impudence  by  shouting  to  him:  "Hold  on, 
man,  stick  to  thy  'last* !" 


SLEEP. 

Sleep  is  nature's  remedy  par  excellence ;  but  its  ben- 
efits are  too  often  offset  by  unnatural  habits  and  en- 
vironments.   For  instance: 

Sleeping  in  a  "heated"  room. 

Sleeping  many  in  a  room. 

Sleeping  in  one's  underwear. 

Sleeping  in  a  room  through  which  there  isn't  a  con- 
stant flow  of  outside  air. 


250  Autology — Study  Thyself 

Sleeping  in  a  room  that  isn't  flooded  with  sun  or  day 
light. 

Such  conditions  are  far  more  objectionable  or  "un- 
healthy" than  shortness  of  hours. 

A  brain  that  becomes  intensely  interested  in  its 
work  will  have  spells,  lasting  weeks  or  months,  where 
9.  few  hours'  sleep  proves  amply  sufficient. 

If  you  attend  to  all  other  "health-matters,"  as  ad- 
vised in  this  book,  it  matters  little  about  how  many 
hours  you  sleep,  or  in  what  position.  You'll  sleep  as 
long  as  your  body  or  business  will  let  you — no  more, 
no  less. 


POSTSCRIPT 


After  standing  alone  for  some  fif- 
teen years,  it  is  gratifying  to  me  to 
note  that  a  few  of  the  most  advanced 
''''medical^''  and  other  Editors  and 
Teachers— always  last  to  "step  aside 
from  the  sheep-path"— «r^  now  begin- 
ning to  recognize  and  teach  and  utilize 
the  fundamental  principles  and  prac- 
tices^ in  matters  of  health  and  sickness^ 
of  Eugenics  and  Heredity  ^  which  were 
first  set  forth  in  Autology.  Incident- 
ally, they  often  forget  to  give  Au- 
tology due  credit;  but  then,  that's 
immaterial — the  People  get  the 
Good,  anyway. 


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